Testimonies of Healing

There is a story of ten lepers who were healed by Christ Jesus, and only one of them, "when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God. " It has come to me that I too should "turn back" to acknowledge the benefits which I have received through Christian Science, and give it the glory due.

NEARLY thirty years ago, Christian Science was brought to what proved to be the death-bed of a loved one, by a lady who had been healed by its ministrations and who was the wife of a minister in an eastern town. Not understanding Christian Science, however, and firmly believing that materia medica would effect a cure, I refused even to permit this teaching to be mentioned in the sick-room.

I cannot but give expression to my sense of deep gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. In May, 1912, I was takes ill with jaundice in the most acute form, but was healed through the ministration of a Christian Scientist within a very short time.

I wish to testify to the efficacy of God's love in the healing of my son. Winter after winter, from the time he was a baby until he was fifteen years old, he had suffered from attacks of influenza which kept him in bed and out of school for periods varying from two weeks to two months.

It is with joy, and with gratitude to Christian Science, that I write this testimony of God's healing presence and loving care. Nine years ago I was a hopeless sufferer, not knowing what it was to be free from pain for a day.

I think the foregoing is an honest and correct statement of Mr. White's case, as far as I know it and have heard it from time to time stated by him in consultation in my office.

Christian Science was first brought to my notice through a friend who lived in Boston. Whenever he visited at my home, he talked about this religion and what it was doing in the line of healing, and in his letters to me he generally referred to it as a means of relief from my physical ills.

Although the Scriptures have always held for me a place apart from other books, and although I was taught to look upon the Bible as the book of life, this neither enabled me to find the living truth therein contained, nor were the means afforded to make it the "chart of life," as we read in Science and Health ( p. 24 ).

In the summer of 1913 I began to study Christian Science. As I was staying in the country with a Christian Scientist, I used to read some of the literature, and one of the testimonies in the Sentinel interested me very much.

In 1886, while still a child, I fell very heavily on my back, and after that I suffered a great deal from backache. This increased in severity with the years, but I refused to see a physician about it.