Testimonies of Healing

I feel that I should no longer delay in telling others of the joy and peace that Christian Science has brought me through deliverance in a large degree from fear, sorrow, and grief. Greatest of all is the spiritual uplift and knowledge of God and of my relation to Him.

At the age of sixteen I was suffering from the so-called laws of heredity, and a doctor told me that if I did not go to a different climate I would not live to be twenty-five. Two of my sisters had passed away at about that age with lung trouble, and my mother with the same disease when I was a child.

It is about two years since I came to Christian Science, a broken man. For my physical complaint, a condition of shattered nerves with all its gruesome accessories, I had for years applied to a number of skilful physicians of different schools, besides experimenting with numerous health cures and taking quantities of drugs, with the result that each succeeding year found me worse off than before.

For more than fifty years I was a victim of hernia, which during the last ten years had assumed an exaggerated and, I was told, a very dangerous form. About four years ago I began the investigation of Christian Science, and as a result of my reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

FIVE years ago last December, while in Oklahoma, I was taken ill, and when we returned home in the spring I grew rapidly worse. A physician was consulted, and after taking medicine for a short time I was confined to the bed with a fever.

I came into Christian Science for moral betterment. From childhood I was fond of alcoholic drink and tobacco in all forms, and as I grew older the appetite increased.

Christian Science has proved a great blessing to my family and myself. I cannot begin to tell of the many wonderful healings we have experienced in our home.

Deep gratitude impels me to tell of what Christian Science has done for me. In April, 1906, I had the misfortune to injure my right foot and ankle, and as a result was obliged to use crutches for nearly three years.

Over a year ago, when I began the study of Christian Science, I was in a very serious condition, having been told by three of our local physicians that I had an abnormal growth and must undergo an operation, the sooner the better. I was very much distressed, but soon after this, when conditions seemed hopeless and an operation the only means of relief, Christian Science came to me through a friend who is following its teachings, and who had given me literature to read at different times.

I would like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has taught and is teaching me each day. I did not come into Christian Science for the healing, but because I saw that those who studied it had something I did not have, and something they did not have before they began to study it, and I wanted to know what that something was.