Testimonies of Healing

For a long time I have been eagerly watching the Sentinel for testimonies of healing from some of my former school friends, but recently it occurred to me that there may be at least one of those friends who has the same wish, and I am certainly glad to tell what Christian Science has done for me. In the spring of 1907 I could hardly walk, because of a weak back, from which I suffered continually.

I feel a deep sense of gratitude for Christian Science, which has given me great happiness as well as better health, and it seems as if God led me to it because of my need and my desire to know the truth. We learn from Science and Health that "desire is prayer" ( p.

I feel it a great privilege to be able to tell of my healing through Christian Science. I can never show my gratitude sufficiently for the way I have been lifted out of what the psalmist calls a "horrible pit.

In the fall of 1899 my wife was, to all appearances, in the last stages of lung trouble. I knew this positively, as I had lost three sisters with the same disease.

The words from our text-book, the "unlabored motion of the divine energy in healing the sick" ( Science and Health, p. 445 ), sent my thought back over the years that the divine energy has been brought to bear upon the health of my loved ones and myself.

In May, 1910, while shopping, I was taken with an attack of heart trouble. I was immediately moved to a physician's office, and after being given attention was taken to my home.

Previous to 1910 I had always had an abnormal growth on my right shoulder, at least it had been there to my certain knowledge for twenty years. It had never given me pain or discomfort, but I had many times thought of having it removed.

I know it is time to add my testimony to those that have already been given and which have been such a help and encouragement to me. In 1905 I was advised to give Christian Science a trial for organic and functional disorders which would not yield to materia medica , in fact the appendix was in such a condition that an operation seemed the only means of relief.

I feel that I ought to tell what Christian Science has done for me. In one week's treatment I was cured of a bowel trouble of over fifteen years' standing.

It is with deep gratitude for the wonderful benefits received through Christian Science that I send my testimony. The change physically is truly wonderful, but I have not words in which to express my gratitude for the spiritual, this uplift into a new world, and for the truth that is sustaining me every day.