Testimonies of Healing

I first heard of Christian Science through a dear friend of my sister, one who had received many benefits from it. My little boy, aged four years, who had been under the doctor's care for fifteen months with ear and nose trouble, was operated on but gradually grew worse.

Many blessings have come into my life through Christian Science, which was brought to my notice over eight years ago by the healing of my friend, Miss Lemon, who touched the hem of Christ's garment while reading Science and Health. Since that time she is certainly a new creature in Christ Jesus, and her healing has been a blessing to many.

For eighteen years I was a sufferer from what is known to the medical profession as hay-fever and asthma. As the years passed, the asthmatic condition became so bad it was wearing me out, and while recognizing that the many physicians to whom I went were doing all they could, I also knew that this is one of the diseases for which materia medica has no cure.

I did not seek Christian Science for the healing, though it was needed very much. Always an earnest seeker after truth, the Bible was my constant companion, and every book that would throw light on its teaching I was eager to read.

I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude for divine protection and guidance in a railroad accident while returning from Denver, Col. In the evening it was discovered that there had been a landslide ahead, and after we had waited at the station all night, orders came to send the train over another road, and we started at eight o'clock Sunday morning.

My first experience with Christian Science was the instantaneous healing of a badly injured ankle, from which I had suffered intensely for three days. I knew nothing about Christian Science at the time, but was persuaded by a friend to try it and so called up a practitioner.

My coming into Christian Science was not for physical healing. I was a church-member, had taught in Sunday school, and had always tried to find the truth as I felt it should be, —something different from just the every-day living.

Several years ago I came home from business one day with a severe chill, and a doctor diagnosed the case as ptomaine poisoning. I became very ill and was unable to go to business for four years.

It was in the fall of 1909 that I first called on a Christian Science practitioner and was given two or three pamphlets, which I read now and then during the following year. About the same time a friend loaned me a copy of Science and Health, but it was scarcely looked at.

I have every reason to be grateful for Christian Science. For years I had questioned many things; there was such a lack of peace and harmony, which I felt ought to be found among those professing to be Christians.