Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science means a great deal to me. I am very grateful for the good it has already brought, but even more so for its never-ending promise.

It is with a heart filled to overflowing with gratitude that I am prompted to write these lines, testifying to the healing efficacy of Christian Science. I suffered for five years with stomach and bowel troubles, and in consequence thereof with extreme nervousness.

In deepest gratitude to God, and also to Mrs. Eddy, for the many blessings which have come to me through Christian Science, I give the following testimony.

As it may encourage some other struggling patient, I will say that after the birth of my third child I was mentally and physically so ill that the doctor who attended me insisted upon my going to a sanitarium in the middle of winter. Instead, I went to relatives, but got worse.

It is now nearly four years since I began the study of Christian Science, and during that time my feet have been led out of slippery ways and planted on the sure rock of Truth, while the comforting assurance that none can pluck us out of God's hand has become a fact to me. From the old sense of fear (and I was afraid of everything,—sickness, sin, and a host of nameless horrors) I stand free and rejoice, because through the teachings of Christian Science I have learned that God is good, and that I cannot be separated from Him.

I have been a traveling salesman for over twenty years and have gained the success that comes from close application to business. It had always been my one desire to know something definite about the creative Principle of the universe, and I had investigated along the lines of different religious creeds, but found nothing that gave me the evidence sought until I found it in Christian Science.

My whole existence prior to coming to Christian Science may be described as one of utter despair, failure, lack of definiteness in purpose and thought; a mental condition in which, while I felt a tremendous desire to be up and doing, I believed it to be totally impossible, for some reason which I could not understand. When I left school and went to Glasgow University, I spent three years there with the sole idea of gaining knowledge for its own sake.

With the hope that this testimony may in a small way express my thankfulness for a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel, which was sent to me some four years ago, I would like to tell of some of the good it has accomplished. About the time it arrived we were able with pleasure to watch the healing of a gentleman from tubercular disease and that of a lady from one of the most serious internal troubles, so that our lives were filled with the good that could come through a right understanding of God.

When some eight years ago I was told about Christian Science by my sister, I was such a great sufferer that I was longing to die. I then heard of a woman who had been healed after twelve years of suffering, and what attracted me more especially to this teaching was the fact that it claimed to be Christian.

When Christian Science came to me in June, 1911, I was a physical wreck. I had been taking medicine almost every day for over twenty years and had been treated by doctors and specialists.