Testimonies of Healing

We are taught in Christian Science that gratitude is a very important feature, and that showing our gratitude for the blessings already received, enables us to receive more. I want to show my sincere gratitude by the giving of this testimony of the many demonstrations we have had in the raising of our baby.

I would like to give my testimony of healing for the encouragement of other seekers after Truth. Fourteen years ago the way was opened to me by the reading of a copy of The Christian Science Journal which a neighbor gave me, and the explanations in this periodical as to the life and mission of Jesus were so satisfactory to me that I accepted them unhesitatingly as true teaching.

As a boy I was reared in a church of which the late Phillips Brooks was then rector. When I grew older, I drifted to another church and continued to worship there until after my marriage, when domestic and business cares seemed to leave but little time for church association.

When the subject of Christian Science was first presented to me twenty-six years ago, I had been suffering from stomach trouble and also from another functional disorder of a nature serious enough to cause my family considerable alarm. Everything I ate brought pain, even the one apple a day to which I had finally reduced my diet.

In November, 1910, I was attacked by a sudden illness which confined me to the bed. All indications pointed to an acute case of appendicitis.

I thank God that I am able to testify to the healing of my dear husband through Christian Science. He was ill from what was called meningitis, and after being unconscious for four weeks the doctors said they could do no more for him, and that he must be put under restraint.

It is now several years since I went to a Christian Science practitioner for treatment for a chronic bowel difficulty. For more than thirty years I had been a sufferer, taking remedies for this ailment from the very best physicians, both here and elsewhere, but they afforded me only temporary relief; in fact, my condition was even worse after using their remedies.

I came into Christian Science for the physical healing. I had been a church-member for a number of years, but as I grew older and began to think more for myself, I became very much dissatisfied with that belief.

For over two years I had suffered almost continuously from severe pain in my left side. I also had stomach disorder, and everything I ate caused severe pain.

I wish to tell of some of the blessings I have received through the study of Christian Science. I had been an invalid for about twenty-five years, taking medicine every day.