Testimonies of Healing

I have had so many proofs of the help derived through even a small understanding of Christian Science that I must no longer refrain from sending my testimony. One of my greatest demonstrations occurred one New Year's eve.

About thirty years ago I was brought to accept Christian Science and to take class instruction, through two cases of scientific healing which seemed so wonderful to my hitherto skeptical thought that I was impelled to know the reason and Science of the cure, for in the twinkling of an eye my lifelong skepticism had vanished. Though a graduate of a noted university, and the son of pious parents who went in 1833 as missionaries to Africa, I had drifted into rank skepticism, or so-called atheism and infidelity, in a vain endeavor to reach a reasonable religion.

It is with sincere gratitude that I offer this testimony for publication. At the time of my deepest struggle, while hungering for rightness and desiring to come closer to God and to know Him aright, it seemed to me that everything went wrong.

My young daughter, fourteen years of age, and myself have been interested in Christian Science about five years, and our knowledge of this teaching has certainly been put to a severe test. While she was returning home from school one day a small boy threw a stone which struck one of her eyes, inflicting a deep cut extending up to and touching the iris.

I wish to express my deep felt gratitude for an instance of very quick healing which I had the privilege of experiencing last autumn through Christian Science. While picking heather I felt a sharp sting, though the cause was not discovered.

It is now five years since I became interested in Christian Science, and words are inadequate to express my gratitude for what it has done for me mentally, morally, physically, and spiritually. For many years I was a confirmed invalid, suffering intensely and almost constantly, with no hope of relief.

I wish to be one more witness to the truth as contained in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy.

One evening a number of us started to call on some friends. The road was very icy, and before we had gone half a mile the sleigh began to slide from one side to the other.

I desire to give my testimony of healing in Christian Science, that it may be read by others who perhaps are facing something of the same conditions. For years I had been frail and my stomach had caused me keen suffering.

When I first heard of Christian Science, the week before Easter, 1912, I had been lying for about six years in a serious condition, suffering from organic, functional, and nervous diseases. I had not walked more than a few yards in that time, my only way of getting about being in a bath-chair, and even that exertion often was too much for me.