Testimonies of Healing

My first healing in Christian Science occurred about sixteen years ago, when we were living in the house with a physician and his wife. One day I had a severe attack of headache, an ailment to which I had been subject since childhood, and which grew worse as the years passed, the attacks sometimes lasting from three to five days.

Words fail to express my gratitude for Christian Science, which has given me a better understanding of God and the meaning of life. All I can remember of my childhood is of being in bed, not caring to move about.

In November, 1911, I became interested in Christian Science through the healing of my little boy. The doctor and the specialist had arranged to operate on him for nasal growths, but my sister wrote to me that if I would consent to have Christian Science treatment there was no need of the operation.

The testimonies of healing done in Christian Science which I have read in the official publications and have heard at the Wednesday evening meetings, have been so important a factor in the growth of my understanding and demonstration of the truth, that I feel it to be a duty to tell the story of my own healing. About five years ago I met a Christian Scientist for the first time.

A friend came to me one day and in tears told me of a most serious hospital experience through which she had just passed. This conversation awakened in my consciousness a deeper sense of gratitude to Mrs.

I have been slow in giving my testimony of what Christian Science has done for me. My earliest recollection was of suffering, and for about three years I was a cripple, owing to the condition of one foot, which, if it had not been for my mother, would have been amputated.

HAVING exhausted all material aids and finding myself a complete wreck physically and mentally, without a ray of hope for either life or health, I sought and found relief in Christian Science, being healed within a short time of chronic stomach trouble and other ailments. A few years later another experience came which enabled me to prove for myself, through following the rules for practice in Christian Science, that God is an ever present help in time of trouble, ever supporting and protecting His children.

Several years ago, while I was employed in the manufacturing laboratory of a drug company, Christian Science was presented to me as something worthy of thoughtful consideration. I had heard of it before only through jest, and through the careless remarks of persons who had given it either no examination or merely a superficial one.

I am deeply grateful for the blessed truth revealed to me through the study of Christian Science. In 1913, when I had been interested in Christian Science only a few months, three of my children were healed of measles after a few treatments.

For some time I have felt that it is due to Christian Science to tell what this teaching has done for me and for my family. I was under a physician's care for over seventeen years, and had undergone one operation, but it was not a success.