Testimonies of Healing

It is with a heart full of love and gratitude to God for Christian Science, and with the hope that it will help some one, that I send this testimony. I was healed of a chronic bowel disorder of seven years' standing, for which I had tried everything and had been under many doctors, my father being a physician.

It is a source of gratification to me to give my brief experience in Christian Science. On the first day of January, 1911, 1 attended a Christian Science service as an escort to a friend who was visiting my home, and had no thought of ever becoming interested; but I was so much impressed with the earnestness and unity of thought which prevailed, that I have been a constant attendant since that date, and also have read most of the authorized literature upon this great subject.

For many years I was a great sufferer from what doctors pronounced a stomach trouble, ulcers on the liver, and gall-stones; in fact, I did not know what it was to have a well day. In January, 1909, not knowing what else to do, I called on a Christian Science practitioner for help, and when the lady came she told me that God did not make me sick, as I had supposed, because God is Love.

AFTER being for four years an adherent of Christian Science, I wish to give my grateful testimony. I embraced this faith, upon investigation of it, because I found in it healing from the perplexities of human experience.

I wish to express my gratitude to God for Christian Science and what it has done in my behalf. While following my occupation as a bricklayer, I slipped on a wet plank and severely injured my ankle.

The more abundant life promised by Christ Jesus is what Christian Science has meant to me. In the midst of material comforts, with everything apparently to be grateful for, I was moody,—hungry for something, I knew not what.

With gratitude to God, and in the hope that my experience may be helpful to others, I gladly give this testimony to the healing power of Truth. Some twenty-five years ago I became afflicted with a weak back, which, as years passed, became a great inconvenience to me, at times rendering me unfit for work, my occupation being that of carpenter and cabinet maker.

Nine years ago I found myself becoming interested in Christian Science, although reluctant to admit it to any one, even myself. I had for years been prejudiced against its teachings, and would not allow the subject to be talked about in my presence, but I was in sore need of physical relief, having what two well-known physicians had diagnosed as tubercular disease.

It is from a heart filled with gratitude to God that I add my testimony to the many thousands given for our cause. I had been ill for years, a great sufferer, and to mortal sense there was no hope for me.

From early childhood I had worn a brace because of spinal disease, and I was treated by a physician of New York city who was a specialist in such troubles. My condition was serious at first, but great improvement followed the early treatment, and I was able to enjoy life about the same as other children, although always wearing the brace.