Testimonies of Healing

Though I am not a Christian Scientist, I wish to express my gratitude for the healing of our little boy, two years old, through Christian Science treatment. In June, 1910, the child contracted whooping-cough, and while suffering from this had a severe attack of acute lung trouble.

Over eight years ago I was led into Christian Science through the healing of my little daughter, then about three and a half years old, from so-called tubercular disease. After two severe operations had been performed, I was told that there was very little hope of her ever getting well again.

The gratitude I feel for Christian Science can never be expressed in words, but I give my testimony with the hope that it may reach some one who is in need of this healing truth. For eight years before I found Christian Science I was a sufferer, not from one disease only, but many.

It is over eight years since I was healed by Christian Science. I had been strong and healthy all of my life until about three years prior to that time, when I took a very hard cold and had a prolonged attack of throat and lung trouble, from which I did not fully recover until other ills manifested themselves.

I Should like to tell a little of what Christian Science has done for me, as I have received a great deal of help from the testimonies in the periodicals. In May, 1900, I received my first treatment in Christian Science.

The time has come when I am so filled with the realization of what God has done for me that I must acknowledge my help. Before I learned of this truth, I find that most of my memories are associated with illness from childhood.

It is with great pleasure that I give this testimony, as a small evidence of gratitude for the benefit I have received through Christian Science. For twenty years I had been a constant sufferer from abnormal growths, in which time I had been treated by many eminent physicians,—one specially skilled in surgery; but after a thorough examination it was decided that an operation would mean instant death.

About five years ago I began to have serious stomach trouble, being unable for a week at a time to retain food or drink. For almost a year I was under the care of osteopathic physicians, at the end of which time I began treatment under one of the best physicians of Memphis, Tenn.

It is with a heart overflowing with gratitude, and a sincere desire to help others, that I write this testimony. I have many reasons to be grateful for Christian Science but I think the strongest proof of its divine power, to me, has been in the healing of sorrow.

I wish to tell of the healing of my mother, which to me was very beautiful after I had seen her suffer for many years. She had been under medical treatment for over ten years, and had undergone several operations, but grew worse continually.