Testimonies of Healing

In love and thankfulness to God, and gratitude to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, I wish to tell of some of the benefits which I have received from Christian Science.

I have so many things to be grateful for in Christian Science that it would be difficult to enumerate them all, but I would like to relate my first demonstration in Science. For thirty years I was a victim of the drink habit, for over fifteen years being completely dominated thereby.

With a deep sense of gratitude, I feel it my duty to tell those who may be wandering in the wilderness as I was, that Christian Science does heal us, both physically and spiritually, if we are willing to leave all for Christ, and follow him who said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. " For many years I had been an invalid, suffering from what materia medica called neuralgia of the muscles.

I would like to express my gratitude through the pages of the Journal for the great privilege of being, or of trying to be, a Christian Scientist. Although the way has been uphill and the struggles with self very severe, I am finding that in proportion as I love the truth, and try to bring it into my daily life, and live it instead of talk it, the way grows more and more beautiful, and the cross melts into the crown.

The testimonies of others have helped me so much that I offer mine in the hope of making some return. It has been about three years since Christian Science was first brought to me.

In reading an editorial in the February, 1913, Journal, the question came to me, Why am I a Christian Scientist? Is it for what I can receive, or for what I can give? and am I blessing as I have been blessed? I have never before written my testimony, but I now wish to give expression to my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me and my family, While I was a regular church member I was an active worker, but it all seemed so inadequate to meet the need of suffering humanity. God was afar off.

A sense of gratitude and joy impels me to tell of the benefits received through Christian Science. About thirteen years ago I was suddenly taken ill with an abdominal complaint and a most serious mental and nervous trouble which necessitated medical attendance, though none of the physicians were able to relieve me of the disease and suffering.

Some nine years ago Christian Science healed me of hemorrhoids, also of chronic bilious attacks. After this I never doubted that Christian Science could heal disease, and relied upon it altogether.

The Master taught, "Freely ye have received, freely give;" and I hope that by acknowledging the benefits I have received through Christian Science, some other sufferer may be led to the fount of living waters. In August, 1909, I called on a friend, a Christian Scientist, with whom I took dinner.

I am glad to have the privilege of expressing some of the gratitude we feel for what Christian Science has brought into our home. Five years ago, when our eldest boy was a year old, the doctor said he had whooping-cough.