Testimonies of Healing
When "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy was placed in my hands, I was helpless and hopeless, unable even to turn myself in bed, where I had lain for six years suffering from what was described as a spinal complaint.
During the years that I have known of Christian Science, many blessings have been received, and for some time my desire has been to express my gratitude through the Journal or Sentinel for the joy that this beautiful truth has brought me. It has healed me of chronic melancholy, and has lifted me out of a sinful life and a desire to die, giving me instead a desire to live in loving service to God and to my fellow man.
Only those who have suffered in a similar way can know what I endured from gall-stones, appendicitis, and yellow jaundice. The best of doctors had treated me, but no relief was experienced except from an opiate.
A few years ago, after suffering from stomach and bowel disorder for years, I had a very acute attack and was obliged to take to my bed. The attending physician pronounced the trouble ulceration of the stomach and bowels.
I can testify to the above testimony as a truthful statement of what Christian Science has done for my wife and family. It has enabled me to see things in a different way and has been a great help to me in my business— C.
It would be difficult to give an adequate expression of thanks for the benefits which I and my dear relatives have received through Christian Science within the last two and a half years. Wonderful indeed has been the way in which we have been attracted one after another by this wonderful teaching, from distant Hungary to Dresden, Germany, in the search for the healing of mind and body.
When I was a small child, my mother was led to Christian Science for physical healing. In it she found not only physical healing but spiritual peace and joy, and was transformed from a nervous, miserable, unhappy woman to the picture of health and happiness.
The following experience has made Christian Science nearer and dearer than ever before, and brought with it the unselfish desire to share its tender blessings with those who may be seeking a very present savior from sorrow or disease. It brought an uplifted sense of the allness of good and of the power of one right thought to destroy or displace the wrong thoughts that clamor for expression in our experience.
For some years prior to coming into touch with Christian Science I was quietly led to separate myself from all Christian churches, although during this period of what my Christian friends called backsliding, I had a strong desire to know God. Then Christian Science was brought to my attention by a fellow worker.
With a heart full of gratitude to God I give my testimony, hoping thereby to help some one. It was in 1907 that the thought kept recurring to me, What is the truth about life? I began to search, and for three years read books on natural science and theology.