Testimonies of Healing

From the time I was eight years old I suffered from rheumatism of the joints, to which was added a supposedly organic heart trouble, which grew more serious in the course of years and resulted in spasms of the heart. I consulted several specialists, who prescribed baths and rest treatment; but it all proved of no avail.

Words cannot express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me. Two years ago my throat seemed to be almost closed, so that I could not swallow food, or even water.

It is from a heart overflowing with gratitude to God that I give my testimony to the power of Truth. Two years and seven months ago Christian Science found me very miserable in every way, both physically and mentally, for I had had a stomach disorder and other organic troubles for years which had baffled the skill of materia medica, and the doctors had told me that if I lived to be over the age of forty the disease would become malignant.

I feel it a duty, and also a privilege, to send in my mite in the way of testimony to some of the benefits received through Christian Science. I cannot tell all the peace, contentment, and change for the better that have come into my home through this blessed truth, but I will refer to two demonstrations which my husband was able to make for me just recently.

Last winter our seven-year-old daughter was taken with pain in all her limbs, which increased in severity with every hour, all the joints being very much swollen. It became necessary for us to carry her, though this caused her great distress.

It has long been my desire to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, knowing that the smallest grain of good cannot be dropped without helping some one else. Being an actress, my attention was first drawn forcibly to Christian Science by the fact that when I was experiencing great suffering, all pain would leave me while performing on the stage, and I would go through my part with scarcely any feeling of distress; but as soon as I was through with it the misery would overwhelm me, and I would scarcely be able to get home.

About three years ago my first impression of Christian Science was gained through the reading of a Thanksgiving number of the Monitor. I had not read our daily papers for some months, but after seeing that copy of the Monitor I promised myself to look into Christian Science, for I felt that an organization which published such a paper was certainly worthy of investigation.

I deem it no less a duty than a privilege to testify to the manifold blessings which have been showered upon me during the three years and upward since I came into Christian Science, until I feel that "my cup runneth over. " The first demonstration made for me, of which I wrote about three years ago, actually startled me into an appreciation and acknowledgment of the power of Truth.

Several years before my attention was called to the teachings of Christian Science, I had been actively engaged in a social settlement in a large city. The suffering I had witnessed in the tenements from tubercular disease had always called forth my deepest sympathy, and when this disease manifested itself on me I felt it a great imposition, as I had fitted myself for the work I was doing by a hospital training and was loath to give up my interest in the problems which faced us in these social centers.

About five years ago I was said by physicians to be in a very precarious condition. Their diagnosis of the case was that there were several large abdominal growths, which would render the birth of my child impossible except through the Caesarean operation, and at the time of this proposed operation the growths were also to be removed.