Testimonies of Healing

Daily I am receiving manifestations of the power of divine Love, and I shall never cease to be thankful to God, also to our noble and self sacrificing Leader, for the many blessings I have received through the study of the Bible and Science and Health. In May, 1910, I had a severe attack of rheumatism.

The past six years, which have been the happiest of my life, have been spent in the atmosphere of Christian Science. It has done so much for me that this public acknowledgment of my indebtedness is but a mite in payment.

I am greatly pleased that the opportunity is afforded me to give expression to my deep-felt gratitude and to testify to my having been healed of paralysis through Christian Science one year ago. On May 27, 1911, a serious spinal disease suddenly manifested itself, and a couple of days later the whole of the lower part of my body became paralyzed.

I have long desired to express my gratitude for the many benefits received in Christian Science and to mention the great joy brought to me in the thought that man is not the helpless victim of sin, disease, and death. Through its teachings I have been able to overcome many errors, and as I make one demonstration after another it ceases to seem, as from a material standpoint, supernatural.

I first became interested in Christian Science through my instantaneous healing from appendicitis. Later, an unusually severe cold on my lungs was entirely cleared away after two treatments from the same practitioner.

When I was told that the understanding of Christian Science would prevent fatigue, I thought this a wonderful statement, for getting tired, physically and mentally, has always seemed so inevitable that to be able to go on and on, after having seemingly reached the limit of physical endurance, and to do it with ease, would certainly be the greatest thing in the world. I was called upon somewhat unexpectedly in March, 1911, to go into the Wasatch mountains in Utah to map the Maple creek watershed, a region about three and a half by four miles, and to measure the depth of snow at several hundred places to ascertain the true average amount of it over the entire district.

It is now five years since Christian Science found me a physical wreck, longing to die. I had been under the care of several physicians, and latterly a specialist, when a friend invited me to a Christian Science service.

It is perhaps three years ago that I heard of Christian Science, through two sisters in Germany who had found health and happiness in it. I could not at first believe the good tidings, as I had repeatedly and vainly sought for comfort in reading the Bible in days of adversity.

With great joy I write of my healing by Christian Science, after I had been an invalid ten years, when "a friend in need" came to prove that "man's extremity is God's opportunity," and that nothing is impossible with God. I had many of the best physicians, of different schools, who did all they could to relieve my suffering, which was intense, and to cure me.

I have long felt a desire to express my sincere gratitude for the many and great blessings that Christian Science has brought to me. It has met my needs in every direction for more than twelve years, though I did not take up its study for a physical ill, but that I might be of some help to a loved one who accepted it in an hour of great need.