Testimonies of Healing

I feel that I have not been doing right in withholding a public acknowledgment of what Christian Science has done for me and mine, though I am unable to find the words to tell the half. It is over six years since I first heard of Christian Science.

My heart goes out in gratitude to God, also to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for what Christian Science has done and is doing for me and for all mankind.

I have great reason to be thankful to God for Christian Science, for to it I owe deliverance from many ills. Over six years ago I was healed of nervous exhaustion by reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

It was my good fortune in wedlock to find an elevating and rarely harmonious companionship of forty-four years' duration. A large family came to us, and there were experiences of loss and grief, but seven children were reared under the most favorable conditions and well-equipped for useful citizenship.

I have so many blessings through Christian Science to record, that many pages would still fail to tell the whole of them. I can only say with the psalmist, "If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.

During the six or seven years prior to February, 1909, I had been rigidly dieting myself, trying to overcome a chronic intestinal trouble. One physician had said I was suffering from appendicitis, another that it was a diseased liver, and still another that there was a partial obstruction.

Christian Science has delivered me from the fear expressed in constant expectation of insanity and death. I was a drunkard and a confirmed smoker.

[Translated from the German] It is over three years since I first knew of Christian Science, and a feeling of joy and deep gratitude impels me to tell of the great blessings which this glorious teaching has brought and is bringing me daily. When I first heard of this teaching, my then thirteen-year-old daughter had been suffering with bronchial trouble, asthma, catarrh, and an affection of the lungs, all of which seemed to be beyond medical skill, the various methods of cure resorted to, including surgery, being of no avail.

[Translated from the German] I write this testimony with a heart full of gratitude and with a sense of great love to God. In September, 1910, I came to Christian Science with but little hope of ever getting well again, as I had suffered with various and severe female troubles for a period of twenty years.

The writer is so rejoiced by a recent proof of God's presence and loving care that he feels he must tell others, as his experience may help some brother who is struggling in the dark with a business problem. Some two years ago, when very young in Christian Science, I joined a friend (not a Scientist) in the financing of a patent not yet tried out, but which seemed to us to have merit.