Testimonies of Healing

NEITHER pen nor tongue can ever express my gratitude to God for Christian Science, but this is a feeble attempt to tell of the many blessings it has brought into my life. I was in bed for three months, under the care of four doctors, who did the best for me they could.

From my earliest recollection, I was considered delicate and was always under medical treatment for some ailment. After marriage I had treatment from physicians in this country and in Europe, receiving at times some relief but no permanent restoration, and the difficulties gradually became more acute.

Mrs. Eddy says, "When God heals the sick or the sinning, they should know the great benefit which Mind has wrought" ( Science and Health, p.

It was in July, 1905, that Christian Science was brought to my notice. Six months prior to that found me in very poor health, with a troublesome cough and unable to eat or sleep as a healthy person should.

In 1906 our four-year-old daughter was taken with a disease of the throat, the attack being so severe that upon the advice of the physicians whom we had consulted we took her to the hospital that same night. We reached there at ten o'clock, and in view of the extreme seriousness of the condition an operation was performed immediately.

A slight understanding of the great truth which makes free came to me a little over two years ago. I was then suffering from a number of so-called incurable diseases, among which was a throat difficulty that the doctors said I would have as long as I lived.

It is over four years since I first began the study of Christian Science. At the time my whole future looked so dark that I did not care to live.

WHEN I was a boy of only seven or eight years of age, I attended the funeral service of a small child. The good minister said among other things, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

When Christian Science was presented to my notice it seemed to promise the fulfilment of the words of Jesus, "Nothing shall by any means hurt you. " At that time, now nearly eight years ago, I was not in immediate need of physical healing, though not altogether robust, as from early childhood I was never very strong and caused my parents much care and anxiety.

For four or five years prior to the time I accepted Christian Science, the text-book had been in our home, my husband being a student of it, and during these years our two children became pupils in the Christian Science Sunday school. Notwithstanding all this, I did not accept the truth, chiefly, because of unwillingness to leave the church to which I belonged.