Testimonies of Healing

It is with a grateful heart that I wish to tell of the blessings which I have experienced through Christian Science. I had been suffering for several years with an affection of the stomach and displacement of some internal organs.

To express my profound gratitude for healing received, and in the hope that my words may bring relief to others who are suffering, this testimonial is given. With joy and humility I desire to make my first public words on this subject the acknowledgment of my error and injustice expressed in days past by thought and word against Christian Science and its Discoverer and Founder.

It is with gladness (because of the good it will bring to humanity) that I testify to the broad-mindedness, kindness, and honesty manifested toward Christian Science by some members of the medical profession. A recent experience brought this to my attention, and I will try to state briefly this case as it occurred.

In the winter of 1879-80 I was employed in a locality far removed from medical aid of any kind, when I experienced the full force of the words, "Lo, I am with you alway," and the fifteenth verse of the ninetyfirst first Psalm, though at that time I was not sufficiently enlightened to realize properly "from whence cometh my help. " I awoke one night with pain, which grew worse and worse, and at last it became unbearable.

Shortly after I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, I was stricken with rheumatism.

I send my testimony in deep gratitude to God for enabling me to see, through the teachings of Christian Science, all my seeming difficulties and troubles vanish as sad dreams. As the blessed light of Truth flooded my consciousness, it dispelled the darkness of disease,—neuralgia, a stomach difficulty, and many other ailments which had made a slave of me for over twenty years.

I am one of a large family in which there was a great deal of sickness, my father and five brothers and sisters having passed away. I became so accustomed to illness that I did not expect to be free from it, and my religious training taught me that God sent sickness, as it was good for our development; that I must not expect to be happy in this life, but if I bore my lot with patience, I would reap my reward after death.

My first knowledge of Christian Science came to me on New Year day, 1907, through a friend to whom it had been proven of materia medica, as we read in the book of Job, "Ye are all physicians of no value. " I had been a sufferer for fourteen years from a very peculiar skin trouble, known to the physicians as a form of leprosy.

Before becoming interested in Christian Science I was never well. I suffered almost constantly from headache; in fact, I could not remember a day in my life when I had been free from it, and for a long time I had severe attacks every few days.

Seven years ago I was first healed in Christian Science. I had a severe attack of pleurisy with some complications and was very ill before a practitioner was called, but after the first treatment I had no fear.