Testimonies of Healing

A few years ago I was taken ill with pleurisy, which left me in a delicate state of health and subject to colds. Besides this I had a chronic bronchial trouble, accompanied by shooting pain, and sudden shortness of breathing which was liable to set in at any moment.

With a deep sense of gratitude I give this testimony of the healing work done through Christian Science for a seriously injured arm. In October,1912, while in a New York store transacting some business, I fell on a highly polished floor, striking on my right elbow.

As I feel so much gratitude for Christian Science, my only regret is that I have not made a more public acknowledgment of its benefits. Some years ago I was a miserable sufferer, discouraged and disheartened with the countless inconsistencies in the world, and especially in the religious teachings of my childhood.

I began to read the Christian Science literature about nine years ago, and finding so much truth therein, I decided to have treatment for an ailment to which I had been in bondage since I was a young girl. I was healed by absent treatment in a very short time, although I had tried medicine many times and failed to find relief; so I was without help until I found it in Christian Science.

Seven years ago the attending physician told me that he could do nothing more for me unless I would consent to be taken to a sanitarium for a rest-cure of several months, when I would need to undergo an operation and after that go to another climate. I had been running down in health for over a year and had been confined to my bed for over a month.

I think I should wait no longer to express my gratitude for the blessings that have come to me through Christian Science. I had been a careless Christian, attending church as the result of custom only, and nourishing within me a mind which looked at religion and the Bible as a puzzle to be left alone.

It is with much pleasure that I am able to confirm the testimony of Miss Aarons, as I knew of her condition at the time of her illness and noted the marvelous change in her. She had absent treatment, and within a short time she was perfectly cured.

One often hears the remark, "I could believe in Christian Science, but not when it comes to absent treatment. " I wish therefore to testify to the efficacy of such treatment.

It is two years since my little boy was healed, and there has been no return whatever of the trouble. He goes to the Christian Science Sunday school, and it is a great help.

As I am now interested in Christian Science, I feel it my duty to testify to its healing power as witnessed in our home. One evening in July,1912, our little boy, aged three years, was suddenly taken ill.