Testimonies of Healing
I consider it a privilege to send the following testimony, bearing witness to what the truth has done for me. Jesus' words,, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," are a blessed promise to one in bondage as I was at the time I began to investigate Christian Science.
MOST people at an early time of life have an underlying conviction, seldom expressed in words, that there must be a true religion. As time goes on, this conviction often changes into doubt and sometimes disappears, according to the environment and education of the individual.
As I have received so much benefit, spiritually and physically, from reading the testimonies in the Journal and Sentinel, I feel that I am not expressing sufficient gratitude to God if I withhold longer my experience in healing, which might help some one as other testimonies have helped me. Five years ago I was for several weeks confined to bed with a nervous collapse.
In the year 1906 I twice had an attack of pleurisy which was not entirely healed through medical treatment, and the following year I had lung trouble which was so severe that I was hardly able to walk. A professor whom I asked to examine me declared that in my case it was useless to prescribe medicine or tell me to go to a sanitarium; that my lungs were seriously affected, and that I must sleep with open windows and eat very light food.
It is now over two years since I became interested in Christian Science, and it is with a feeling of gratitude that I give my testimony. I was ready for the hospital, a doctor having said he had done all he could for me and that I could not be any better until I had an operation.
After years of semiinvalidism, I suffered a complete breakdown at the age of thirty. My heart, never strong, was declared by physicians of different schools to be so seriously affected that a necessary surgical operation could not be undertaken.
May God help me to express my gratitude adequately for all the good that has come to me through the teachings of Mrs. Eddy.
Some years ago, while living in Wiesbaden, Germany, I had a severe attack of blood-poisoning and was given up by all the doctors. They said that they could not help me, and that I would not live many years.
Gratitude to God, and to His messenger to this age, impels me to write my testimony to the healing and redemptive power of Truth, as presented to mankind in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy.
I am an ex-country editor, whom the loss of his paper, through political and other vicissitudes, drove to Kansas City and to the occupation of proofreader. In June, 1908, I was violently attacked by acute kidney trouble, somewhat in the nature of Bright's disease.