Testimonies of Healing

In praise to God I would testify to the many blessings which I have received through Christian Science. I used to be subject to colds which would develop into catarrh and a very stubborn cough, but through the loving help of a Christian Science practitioner I was soon healed of this tendency.

When I first began to read the wonderful yet simple truths of Christian Science. I looked hourly for miracles.

It was a little over four years ago that I sought help in Christian Science. At that time I was what the doctor called a nervous dyspeptic.

Like a great many others. I did not begin the investigation of Christian Science for physical help, but recognizing that the one who presented it to me had a strong and reliable guide to right living.

It is several years since I first turned to Christian Science for physical help, and I am indeed grateful for the understanding gained and the great benefits received through the study of the Bible, together with Mrs. Eddy's book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

I did not become interested in Christian Science through any physical healing, but because it appealed to me as a practical, every-day religion. Numerous physical ailments, however, have been overcome, the first being chronic bilious attacks.

I wish to acknowledge and express my gratitude for the benefits that have come to me through Christian Science, having been healed several years ago of four organic troubles which the best physicians in this country and in four countries of Europe had been unable to cure. I had been obliged to lie down a good part of the time, and there was little improvement in my condition.

From early manhood and for a period of twenty-five years I was a victim of the liquor habit in all its various degrees, even to the condition known as delirium tremens. In the latter years of my bondage to this great evil, which had destroyed my opportunities, blasted my hopes, and almost killed my ambitions, I had tried to resist its influence with every conceivable method and system in the human will of man, only to meet with failure and to be cast up again on the rocks of adversity and despair, until I was near the end of human endurance.

It is full time for me to acknowledge the wonderful blessings that have come to me since finding the true understanding of God as revealed through the study and application of the teachings of Science and Health. I was a church-member, had always attended both church and Sunday school, and tried to live up to my beliefs, but when the testing time came there was something wrong either with me or with my religion.

I had been attending First Church of Christ, Scientist, London, for about a year and had enjoyed the services, but had no wish to make a study of Science and Health until the following experience came to me. While preparing to bathe my little girl, then two months old, our three year old boy, who was standing up in his chair beside me, overbalanced.