Testimonies of Healing

It is without hesitation that I place on record, in plain and unvarnished language, the debt of gratitude I owe Christian Science. In First Church of Christ, Scientist, Johannesburg, I have often expressed the gratitude I owe Mrs.

Words cannot express the gratitude I owe to God for Christian Science, not alone for restoration of health but for happiness and that peace of mind which "passeth all understanding. " Until I found this great truth, I had never known what it was to be well.

Six years ago, while enjoying good health, I became acquainted with Christian Science, the immediate occasion being a friend's healing from a dangerous and acute disease. At that time I was given some literature on the subject which aroused my interest and led me to read and study assiduously, for I felt that this must be the truth.

I have been benefited much by reading the testimonies in both the Journal and Sentinel , and want others to know what the application of the teaching of Christian Science has done for me. In the fall of 1910 I became afflicted with stomach trouble to such a degree that I had to quit work, for the doctors treated me with no results.

During the summer of 1910 we took a vacation trip, and had been at the resort but a short time when our three-year-old daughter began to cough. Although I tried to meet the trouble in Science to the best of my knowledge, it increased perceptibly, and the child was pitied a great deal by the guests at the resort, the discord thus being made very real.

It is a little more than two years since I first took up the study of Christian Science. Mrs.

Although I am not a member of any Christian Science church, my heart is overflowing with thankfulness for what Christian Science has done for me, and so I offer my testimony with the expectation that it will be a help to some brother wandering in the wilderness. I was raised in New York city by a mother who was a strict orthodox Jewess, and who spared no expense in the education of her children, thereby giving me a thorough knowledge of Hebrew, which enabled me to read it fluently, although not comprehending the meaning of all I read.

I feel it to be both my duty and my privilege to tell what Christian Science means to me. For many years I had known vaguely of its existence; I had met Scientists, and been interested in their accounts of wonderful healing, either their own or that of their friends.

I rejoice that I can testify to Christian Science healing, physically and spiritually. As I look back and recall my condition when Christian Science took me up, I am at a loss as to just what to tell about.

Four years ago I was healed through one treatment in Christian Science of a very aggravated case of hay-fever. I had been subject to these attacks for eighteen years, rarely passing through August and September without untold suffering, but I have had no return of the trouble.