Testimonies of Healing

In gratitude to God, to our dear Leader Mrs. Eddy, and to all those who have helped me on the way, I wish to relate my healing through Christian Science.

I am very glad to add my testimony to the many which I read week by week, of the blessings and the happiness that Christian Science has brought into our home. It may also be a help to others to know of the good healing work that has been done in this field in general.

In childhood I had a very severe attack of scarlet fever, which was supposed to have left my throat and nose in a serious condition, and from that time until seventeen years ago, when Christian Science was first brought into our home through the healing of a sister, I was constantly under the care of the best throat and lung specialists of Cleveland, Ohio. One of these told me that my lungs were in a most serious condition, as I had begun to have hemorrhages whenever I coughed; therefore when I saw my sister healed I began to study Science and Health, and also to attend the Christian Science services.

For years I was a traveling salesman and merchant, but all the while I was a constant sufferer and was under medical treatment most of the time, trying new remedies for various ailments, for it seemed as if I was afflicted with almost every ill to which flesh is heir. My business brought me in touch with druggists the greater part of the time, and from their point of view I was provided with every needful remedy; but with all my doctoring I constantly grew worse.

I wish to give thanks for all the blessings that have come to me and mine since my son sent us a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy over four years ago.

I wish to express my gratitude for blessings received through Christian Science. I have been lifted from the depths of torment, for I was afflicted with a severe nervous trouble before I became interested in this truth.

I have recently become so indebted to divine Providence through the instrumentality of Christian Science, that I feel it my duty to express my gratitude for the benefit of all those who may be wavering between doubt and confidence in it as a remedy for illness and severe injury. I am informed that it is the prevailing opinion among the medical profession generally, that within twenty-four hours from the time a man sustains the injury known as a broken back, paralysis or death will ensue; but such was not my experience.

About four years ago I received internal injuries from an accident on a street-car in Chicago. I was taken to a hospital, where I remained nine weeks, and was treated by five different doctors without receiving any help.

When physicians told me that a member of my family could never be well, that in fact this one had better be dead than in the condition which then existed (and this was caused by the use of drugs), for a time I was without hope, "and without God in the world. " Fortunately, about this time I heard of Christian Science, and that it was something which healed without drugs, so I borrowed a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

In January, 1905, after practising the exacting profession of dentistry for seven years, I broke down physically and mentally. In those seven years I had degenerated from an athlete to a wreck.