Testimonies of Healing

It is now twelve years since I turned to Christian Science for help, and that was after I had tried many material means and had failed to find a cure for a chronic bowel disorder. I knew nothing of Christian Science at that time, but was attracted by the healing of a friend, when I saw the change from confirmed invalidism to a perfect state of health, the friend manifesting great happiness and activity.

When I was unable, physically and mentally, to meet the duties of my life, and when I had given up in despair the hope of ever being well, Christian Science was brought to my notice. I had known nothing of Science, and fearing that it was but one of the various cults which had come to my knowledge and none of which I could accept, I determined first to learn something of its teachings and then if possible to try it.

About twelve years ago I had an attack of rheumatism, which gradually grew so severe that I was unable to attend to my work. To this was added a growing weakness of the eyes, making it impossible for me to read or write without glasses, and when the weather was bad a supposedly dangerous inflammation would set in.

We live at a village where there are but five other students of Christian Science, and although I had read Science and Health for nearly three years, I refused until recently to call myself a Scientist, as I had failed to demonstrate the power of Truth to heal disease. My husband was laboring under the sense of asthma, having been a victim for over twenty years, and it often seemed that he was on the verge of passing on.

A line just read has recalled me to my sense of obligation to the cause of Christian Science, viz. : "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" To those who have believed because they understood, it could not seem incredible.

I feel that I owe it to others to tell what Christian Science has done for me. For years I was enslaved by the liquor habit, although continually fighting it in a way; but it would, overcome my good intentions, and then would come such a period of excessive drinking as was shameful.

With a heart full of gratitude I wish to tell of the many blessings which I have experienced through Christian Science. Because of much sorrow, care, and disease in my family I myself became ill.

I have long withheld my testimony of what Christian Science has done for me, as the demonstrations seemed so small that I felt they were not convincing enough to one who had never experienced any benefits from it. An experience which I had last November, however, should convince even the most skeptical.

I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Christian Science for what it has done for me in my uplifting and for the many benefits I have received through the power of Truth. I gladly embrace the privilege of telling others of what it has done for me.

Even prior to becoming acquainted with the teachings of Christian Science I had wonderful proofs of God's omnipotence and love. I set my trust neither on physicians nor on material means and was healed of various diseases, and so were my husband and children; but in November, 1910, a terrible pain of the head set in which gradually became so intense that I cried out for hours at a time.