Testimonies of Healing

I would join others in giving thanks for the wonderful healing which came to me last year through Christian Science. I had suffered for twenty-nine years with varicose veins in a severe form; and although I was under medical treatment continuously, I experienced no healing, but rather went through great suffering.

It is now over three years since I first became interested in Christian Science, and I love to tell of what it has done for me. At the time when a friend of mine told me of Christian Science and urged me strongly to try it, I was in very poor health and had been sick for a number of years.

Recently , while reading the Sentinel and Journal, it came to me forcibly that I was losing an opportunity when I failed to add my testimony to the many others regarding the great blessing that Christian Science is to mankind. A few years ago I was in Arizona in very poor health.

The following testimony is given with the hope that it will help some one who is searching for the truth. When Christian Science was first brought to our home, I was suffering from rheumatism.

I desire to return thanks for a beautiful demonstration of the power of Truth which I had while spending a fortnight's holiday in the island of Jersey. I arrived there from England on Saturday, Aug.

In writing this testimony I recall St. Paul's words, "That God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ;" for I feel that I have indeed been shown "the mystery of Christ" through the understanding of Christian Science.

Paul writes: "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. " When I think of the five years of suffering from a complete physical and nervous breakdown, said to have been caused by an attack of fever,—of the sleepless nights, weary days, constant headaches, intense pain, weakness, and extreme nervousness,—and contrast that condition with my present life of health, peace, and happiness, I do indeed feel that all things have become new for me.

I send this testimony in loving gratitude for the many helpful messages brought to me in the Journal and Sentinel. About thirteen years ago I was healed of lung trouble when I seemed to have but a short time to live.

It is with pleasure that I write this testimony to tell of a few of the blessings which have come to me through my understanding of Christian Science. For about four years before I took up its study I was under medical treatment nearly all the time; but it seemed that the longer I doctored the more I suffered.

Recently while cutting a trail in a canyon in the mountains near by, it was necessary to remove a large quantity of what is called "poison oak," which grew in great profusion and to a considerable height. I worked for several hours in removing it, and during the following night I suffered so intensely that I called for help from a Christian Science practitioner over the telephone and was given absent treatment.