Testimonies of Healing
I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, and will say that I had suffered for several years from nervous and stomach troubles, also sleeplessness, so that when divine Truth, as expressed through Christian Science, was brought to my attention, I was sorely in need of aid, and certainly found in it an ever-present help in trouble. The kindly ministrations of a faithful practitioner were successful in overcoming the nervousness and the stomach disorder, as well as the sleeplessness, in a few treatments.
I KNOW not how to express my thankfulness for the help I have received from Christian Science. Four years ago I knew little or nothing about it, and when my two-year-old boy had an attack of bronchitis, a doctor was sent for.
To one who counts among his treasures a beginner's knowledge of Christian Science, the word gratitude looms large upon his horizon. Quite commonly we had been content to associate the word with some particular event, not entertaining it as a blessed inhabitant of our consciousness; but how differently and deeply the perpetual sense of gratitude is cherished by those who have felt the healing touch of Truth! A few years ago my sense of gratitude was incomplete, hampered by fear, weighed down by discord, moral, physical, and mental.
It is with great pleasure that I give my testimony, hoping it may be of benefit to some one. About four years ago I experienced a great sorrow, which left me in a deplorable condition, with nervous exhaustion and heart trouble.
I began to study Christian Science about five years ago, when my mother was healed by it after the doctors had decided that nothing more could be done for her. She had been ill for four years from so-called stomach, kidney, and heart troubles.
For some time it has been my desire, and I believe my duty, to tell what Christian Science has done for me and mine. This great truth has been demonstrated several times in our home.
About three years ago I had a most remarkable experience in the way of healing, a very beautiful demonstration of the efficacy and possibilities of the truth, and it is with deep gratitude to God for Christian Science that I tell of it. I had not been feeling very well for a day or two, and foolishly participated in a very strenuous game of baseball.
In August, 1911, while in perfect health, I was suddenly stricken unconscious and fell down stairs. When I regained consciousness, my right side, from head to foot, seemed terribly bruised and in great pain, but I rose to my feet, giving no heed to the body, and declared the truth constantly, until I was able to begin the study of our Lesson-Sermon.
It is with a sense of deep gratitude that I wish to tell of the benefits I have received through Christian Science. A year ago I had a severe attack of lung trouble, which grew worse from day to day, with rising temperature, and finally turned into a typical case of fever.
It is a heart filled with gratitude which leads me to acknowledge through the medium of the Journal the great blessings that have come to me through Christian Science. For fifteen years I was broken down in health, not knowing what it was to feel well for a single day.