Testimonies of Healing

For several years I could not reconcile myself to the prevailing religious beliefs. I became an agnostic and an infidel, giving up all church relations, the Sunday service, Sunday school work, and guild work.

In deep gratitude I blend my voice with the great song of praise and thanksgiving to God, sung by so many thousands today, for His truth, revealed to us through the faithful work of Mrs. Eddy.

I would like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, both physically and mentally. I came to it a few years ago for physical healing, and was cured at that time of what seemed to be a very serious lung trouble.

A few years ago I spent the summer with one who is a Christian Scientist; and while observing the physical healing, the happiness, peace, and joy which this one derived from studying Christian Science, I became interested. It seemed to me that this was a religion worth studying, when it made my friend so happy with seemingly so much around to make one the very reverse.

Words cannot express how thankful I am to God for the many blessings that have come to me through Christian Science. In September, 1912, I was healed of spinal trouble from which six physicians had said I could not recover.

For a long time I have taken the opportunity to make known to my friends some of the benefits which I have enjoyed through my limited understanding of Christian Science, but I have heretofore refrained from giving any testimony for publication. This, I am sure, is not because of lack of appreciation of the good things that have come my way, but because of a disinclination to appear in print.

I became interested in Christian Science through the healing of my child. She had a very serious bowel disorder and had been given up by one of our physicians, who advised me to take her to my mother's home some three hundred miles away.

My physical healing in Christian Science is sufficient cause for gratitude the rest of my life. I suffered terribly, and during more than two years and a half I did not sleep three hours out of the twenty-four, and even then it was not restful sleep.

I want to tell what Christian Science has done for me. In the year 1897 I was taken ill with rheumatism, which ran on a few years and then dropsy set in.

It has long been my desire to express publicly my gratitude for all the good which has come to us through Christian Science during the last seven years. If I were to write about it all, it would fill a book.