Testimonies of Healing

When three years old, my son was taken ill with a high fever, but not much alarm was felt until his left arm became paralyzed. We called a physician, but he did not seem to understand the cause of the difficulty.

I gladly testify to the truthfulness of my mother's statement as to her healing. We are very grateful for our knowledge of Christian Science.

It is a duty as well as a privilege to testify to what Christian Science has done for me. I heard of this teaching when living in the East, but always from sources which were unfavorable to it.

I desire to testify to the healing power of Christian Science and to give utterance to some of the gratitude felt for its ministrations. Having been reared in the so-called orthodox belief, I supposed there was little opportunity for salvation elsewhere.

Christian Science found me at a time when I had given up all hope of ever being well again, as I was a victim of a serious internal disorder of several years' standing for which materia medica had been tried without avail. One day a lady told me of Christian Science, saying that God did not make me ill and that He could heal me.

To say that I am thankful for what Christian Science has done for me is but feebly to express my feeling. This teaching has helped me and mine most wonderfully, in sickness, in sorrow, and during a mental strain that at times seemed unendurable.

It is about fifteen years since I first heard of Christian Science and attended a Wednesday evening meeting. Although I understood but little English at that time, yet I felt much uplifted spiritually, which goes to show that the real language is spiritual.

Christian Science has done so much for me in bringing peace, love, and harmony into my life, which before seemed filled with discord, despair, and evil, that words fail to express my thankfulness to God, and my gratitude to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy.

It is with the greatest thankfulness to God and gratitude to Mrs. Eddy that I write this testimony of the power of Spirit over matter.

In 1912 I was suddenly attacked with a severe case of peritonitis while confined to bed with kidney trouble. The physicians in charge held a consultation and sent me to a hospital, where an operation was performed.