Testimonies of Healing

I desire to express my gratitude for the many benefits I have received since I became interested in Christian Science. I sincerely hope that my testimony may help others who are in the same slough of despond that I was, and who are trying to find a way out.

I was an invalid for years and bedfast about six years. I cannot realize any one's suffering more than I did.

Over two years ago I was brought to Christian Science for the healing of a most severe attack of nervous and mental illness. It seemed that there was only misery for myself and all those around me.

Before I knew anything about Christian Science, I was an invalid: in fact, had been all my life. When I reached the age of fourteen I became very weak, and found myself bedfast.

I wish to add my testimony of the great benefits which I and my family have received, both physically and mentally, from Christian Science. Some three years ago I commenced to suffer very acute pains in the stomach, so upon my last visit to England I had myself thoroughly overhauled by a first-class physician, who diagnosed the ailment as a case of gall-stones.

THE recent reading of some critical comments respecting Christian Science and its Leader has caused the present writer to question himself: Would it be possible for you to forsake the cause of Christian Science, or to fall away from trying to live its precepts? And if falling away, where would you fall? Do you merely believe in this Science of being, or do you truly understand it? If the unity of God and His creation, man and the universe, is understood, how could you depart from this certain knowledge of so great salvation? If the above-mentioned editorial critic could have had the present writer's experience, surely his unwarranted opinions would never have been penned. In July, 1905, I found myself in a southern city, in that extremity of mind and body which has been described as God's opportunity.

It is with a feeling of deepest gratitude for the blessings which have come to me through Christian Science that I wish to tell of my experiences. For mouths I suffered from melancholy and nervous exhaustion, and did not care to do anything, since whatever I started to do seemed a heavy task.

The dearest experience that ever came into my earthly existence is the healing, through Christian Science, of a trouble from which I had suffered since childhood. I was said to have been born with defective vision.

I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me and my little family. For several years past it has enabled us to keep well and to meet the ailments which sometimes present themselves in a family of small children.

I first heard definitely of Christian Science about twelve years ago. My father and sister were overheard discussing it, and I realized at once that it was the truth.