Testimonies of Healing

I feel impelled to tell how through God, divine Love, my child's life has been taken care of. She was able to run about and even to talk a little at the age of one year, when she became afflicted with whooping-cough, and being greatly weakened thereby, developed rickets.

When I began the study of Christian Science I wanted to find out what it was that made its followers so harmonious, not only with one another but with every phase of good. One verse in the Bible stood out clearer and plainer to me than any other, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

When Christian Science was first presented to me about fifteen years ago, I was in excellent health, and therefore began to study it merely to understand its spiritual teachings; but it was only after faithfully continuing to do so for over two years that I began to grasp them. The light came all at once.

As I try to find fitting words with which to express my gratitude for a knowledge of the truth, thought goes back to a day several years ago when a telegram was received that my only child had passed on suddenly while far from home. The world was darkened for me in the days of that last sad home-coming, but I tried to look to God, who I felt sure did all things well.

Some of the accounts of healing accomplished by Christian Science seemed to me almost too wonderful to be true until an experience came into my own life that was as wonderful as any of which I had read. In August, 1914, my son, then nineteen years of age, who is on a farm a few miles from Sioux City, Iowa, at about sundown one night was driving through a gate an angry boar, which was foaming at the mouth, when with no warning the animal jumped at him.

Words could never tell all the blessings that have come to me since taking up the study of Christian Science a few years ago. At that time I was in a sanitarium at Pasadena with only a piece of one lung left, according to materia medica.

I am very happy to tell what Christian Science has done for me, thinking it may help others. For fifteen years I was ill most of the time and suffered seemingly from almost every disease flesh is heir to.

It was in January, 1912, that Christian Science was first brought to my notice as a means of physical healing. What little I had heard of it before this time was in criticism.

I appreciate the opportunity of expressing my gratitude for Christian Science through the periodicals, and hope that what I have to say about my physical and mental condition will lead some one to investigate its teaching. For two years I suffered from lung trouble.

I am the son who was in the house when my mother fell down cellar and who picked her up, and will say she was in pretty bad shape. While I am not a Christian Scientist, I will say that though I was with her only a short time after the accident, she was up and around each day and was much improved when I left.