Testimonies of Healing
When God led me to Christian Science, about a year and a half ago, our only child, seven years old, was in a hopeless condition. She had been suffering for two years with a disease of the kidneys.
In the hope that my experience will be of use in spreading the truth which heals mankind, I respectfully submit the following testimony. About six years ago we became interested in Christian Science, through my brother who had been healed of numerous diseases.
With loving remembrance of the first copy of the Journal I ever saw, I wish to express my thanks for all that Christian Science means to me and in our home. It was about twelve years ago that a friend sent me the Journal, and after reading it I sent for a copy of Science and Health.
Such a wave of gratitude for Christian Science came over me while studying one of our Lesson-Sermons that I feel impelled to express it. God led me to Christian Science when I was most in need of the Comforter.
About three years ago T first became interested in Christian Science. At that time I was almost helpless, having, in 1904, sustained a stroke of paralysis which rendered my left side useless.
One of the most practical counsels given us by our beloved Leader is that we should keep our "minds so filled with Truth and Love that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them" (Pamphlet, What our Leader Says, p. 7).
With a heart filled with love and gratitude to God, I feel it a duty and a privilege to give to others my experience in Christian Science. In 1891, Science and Health was placed in my hand by a dear friend.
In the summer of 1902 I was taken with a very severe attack of so-called appendicitis. I just pulled through, with the aid of one of the best doctors in New England, but I was cautioned that I must be very careful, must not exert myself in any way, and be sure to take a remedy daily.
Five years ago, while employed as a clerk in a wholesale drug house, I was stricken with temporary paralysis of the right arm. Naturally, I turned to materia medica, for aid, but after trying the best physicians and nerve specialists I did not improve.
It is with gratitude that I send a testimony of my healing in Christian Science. When I was a child my eyes gave me a great deal of trouble, and I was taken to the best physicians in Detroit, and glasses were fitted to my eyes.