Testimonies of Healing

I have been an adherent of Christian Science for quite a while and would like to tell of the benefits derived therefrom. About a year ago, around Christmas, my eight year old boy became afflicted with a diseased condition of the tonsils, the swelling being very large and hard.

In gratitude to our loving Father for the understanding of Christian Science I write the following testimony. I had worn glasses constantly for sixteen years for defective sight, said by the oculist to be hereditary, and was just waiting to get stronger glasses when through the loving work of a dear friend I was instantaneously healed and experienced a wonderful spiritual uplift.

A little over four years ago I began the study of Christian Science. For more than ten years prior to that time I had been under the care of different doctors, some of them specialists, on account of a throat affection and a cough, accompanied by pleurisy in a very serious form.

It was through a friend that Christian Science was brought to me as that power which can overcome sin. Step by step it has been proved effectual, and for the last ten years has been the only means of healing used in my home.

Christian Science has been a great blessing in my life. It has helped me to work out many difficult problems at times when mortal sense cried out that the burden was too heavy to bear.

Since coming into Christian Science, about three and a half years ago, I have many times thought I would send for publication a brief account of my experience. In September, 1893, I was ordained a minister, and continued in the work of the ministry for about sixteen years.

Christian Science did not come to me at a time of physical need, but it came when I had ceased to get satisfaction from the faith I professed. Almost as soon as I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

It is with a grateful heart that I would like to relate a few instances in which blessings have been experienced in my family through Christian Science. A cousin of mine who had been healed by its ministration drew our attention to this new religion, and many have been the proofs of Truth's power that we have had since.

Six years ago it would have been hard to find a more discouraged mortal than I, not because of ill health, though I was far from strong, but because I was so unhappy that I longed to die. The conditions of our home life were discordant and our financial affairs distressing.

Before turning to Christian Science I suffered from stomach disorder of twenty years' standing, and chronic bowel trouble dating back to early childhood. I was also subject to severe headaches, and last but by no means least sleeplessness was added, rendering my existence well-nigh unbearable.