Testimonies of Healing
TO the record of hundreds of wonderful cures of seemingly incurable diseases by Christian Science treatment I wish to add that of a dangerous malady for which I had been treated unsuccessfully by three physicians and four specialists in the treatment of lung diseases. I had been troubled with a cough for several years, which became worse, until in the spring of 1908 I had to cease work having the usual symptoms, including loss of weight and appetite.
Monday , Jan. 27, 1908, an unknown and unnamed disease made its first appearance upon me in the form of pain in my knee.
I was sick, miserable, in bondage to physical pain, discouragement, and self-will; but Christian Science has healed and freed me, and changed all this to health, soundness, and joy. Through Christian Science I walk, with the keenest enjoyment of perfect freedom of movement, three miles a day to and from the office, after six years of invalidism and helplessness, with almost constant pain in the spine, which the doctors said would keep me from ever being well and active again.
I should like to add my testimony lo that of thousands of others who have been healed through Christian Science. Twentyfive years ago I met with a very serious accident, sustaining internal injuries and fractures.
For the countless benefits I have received during the last five years through the study of Christian Science, I should like to say how unspeakably grateful I feel. I have been lifted out of a life of sadness and misery, from which there seemed no escape, to a knowledge (though very slight) that "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
I have postponed the writing of my testimony, feeling that I could not do justice to the truth or make one understand who had not learned to avail himself of God's mighty power to heal the sick. I had been very miserable for years; was a great sufferer from asthma for about thirty years.
I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, and hope it may be a help to some one in search of the truth. It is over two years since I began the study of Christian Science, and they have been the happiest years of my life, for I have learned to know God, and to know that all He has made is good.
A deep feeling of gratitude impels me to give thanks for what Christian Science has done for me and mine. It found me some two and a half years ago in a sad condition.
More than five years ago I learned of Christian Science and what it had done for many persons both physically and mentally. I had been out of health much of the time for many years, and had tried different methods of treatment until it seemed there was not one more for me to try.
Three years ago I had to consult a doctor, as I was suffering great pain and wasting to a shadow. The doctor ordered me to a hospital, where I was operated on by a specialist, who informed my son that I was suffering from a malignant growth, that he could do nothing for me, and that I could not possibly live more than six months at the most, as the growth was attached to the vital organs and could not be removed.