Testimonies of Healing

I wish to give my testimony as to the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science. In June, 1908, I was to material sense suffering from a bad case of rheumatism, and had been for twelve weeks.

I wish to add my testimony to the many which I have read and from which I have received so much help. When I went to a Christian Science practitioner I was suffering from such severe headaches that I was unable to walk a block without enduring terrible pain.

A very dear friend came to me on Aug. 15, 1911, and asked me to try Christian Science for the healing, and for that alone, as at that time I did not know it was of value for anything else.

It was my privilege to experience a remarkable instance of the love and omnipotent power of God in the summer of 1913. For five years I had suffered with stubborn attacks of so-called hay-fever, which caused me great distress, especially during the beautiful season of the year when everything was blooming.

I was a witness of Mrs. Lord's healing through Christian Science, and the foregoing is a true statement of the facts.

It is difficult for a Christian Scientist to enter at once into his full heritage with Christ, and nearly impossible for him to tell one unacquainted with Christian Science all the good which this teaching has brought into his life. Healing from physical ills is the most easily comprehended of the Christian Scientist's many blessings, and he therefore usually tells of such healing when asked to give a reason for his faith.

It is now almost seven years since the wondrous truth of Christian Science began to dawn upon my darkened sense, bringing the "light that never was, on sea or land," quickening into life what had lain dead through the long winter of my discontent, and lo! spring was there with its first green shoots, the tiny buds of the unfolding flower, the sweet songs of rejoicing in "the wide horizon's grander view" (Hymnal, p. 4).

It is with a joyful heart and a sense of deep gratitude that I wish to testify to the good which has come to me through Christian Science. I had been suffering for two years with a stomach affection, in addition to heart trouble and a nervous condition, and had been under the care of various physicians; but instead of being relieved, I seemed to grow worse every day.

With a heart overflowing with gratitude for help received through reading the testimonies of others in the Christian Science publications, I am desirous to tell of my own healing, with the loving hope that seekers for Truth may be helped thereby. Prior to 1903 I had been a great sufferer for fifteen years from a complication of diseases,—chronic throat trouble, stomach disorder of serious nature, heart affection, rheumatism, and sleeplessness.

Truly , Christian Science meets every human need. While surf bathing with two cousins near my home, one cousin and myself were suddenly swept out of our depth.