Testimonies of Healing

It is about three years since I became interested in the study of Christian Science, having been led to investigate it on account of needed physical healing, and not knowing at that time that there was anything else about it except the healing of the body. I had been a member of an orthodox church for a number of years and was, as I thought, a true Christian.

Having put aside all the various religions presented to me, as either speculative theories or outworn beliefs, I was after many years content to try to do my duty toward man, as I understood it, while waiting for the revelation of Truth which I knew was bound to come to me. Indeed, my sense of Truth, though I was ignorant of it, preserved me from the falsities of various isms which were presented to me in divers attractive forms, culminating in a spurious form of Christian Science which so repelled me by its evident dishonesty that I found it difficult to listen at first to real Christian Science when it was finally brought to my notice.

LEAVING Lucerne one cloudy September morning, our route lay over the celebrated St. Gothard pass, the marvelous scenery of which was interrupted at intervals by the many tunnels which plunged us into darkness, till finally the last and longest tunnel lay before us, the St.

Christian Science was brought to my notice in the spring of 1901, through the healing of my mother, who at the age of seventy-five was in a serious condition from kidney and bowel trouble. She had received no benefit from a medical specialist, but when we called a Christian Science practitioner, and read Science and Health to her, she was healed in about two weeks.

I came into Christian Science with a very impulsive nature, and although I worked persistently to overcome this condition of thought, the more I labored the more I seemed to be its victim, until at last I found, through some experience in church work and as a practitioner in the field, that every time I yielded to an excited thought and voiced an error, this same error would return to me through another, with even more force than it seemed to have when I was entertaining it. I saw that if this evil was to be overcome I must not ignore it, but I must not give it life by repeating it; that the only possible way for me to reach heaven here or hereafter was to overcome all belief in evil, and this I could not do while I was voicing it.

I wish to express my gratitude for all the good which I have received through Christian Science. For several years I suffered from gall-stones, the attacks being often very severe.

Words cannot express the gratitude I feel for Christian Science for what it has done for me. It has made a complete change in me, something which two years ago I would call an impossible thing to do.

Seven years ago Christian Science found me suffering in mind and body, several operations previous to this time having failed to give me relief. Another was decided upon, and this called forth much fear and worry, which increased the physical suffering.

When Christian Science found me, I had been a sufferer thirty-five years. I was said to have contracted hip disease when a child of five, and although my father spared no expense in seeking my restoration to health, and the best medical advice was obtained, yet day after day I grew worse.

It is from a heart overflowing with thankfulness to God that I tell of some of my experiences since I first learned of Christian Science. About three years ago my daughter who lives in London wrote and begged me to try this healing truth, as she had a friend who had been completely cured by it.