Testimonies of Healing

Our daughter had been suffering for two years with a severe nervous trouble, so that her limbs became distorted. The spasms were well-nigh continuous during the last period.

We have been so much benefited by reading the testimonies published in our periodicals, that perhaps some one, hungering for the truth as I was, may be helped by reading of our joy in Christian Science. My son bad witnessed my instantaneous healing, through the application of the truth, in a well advanced case of a throat affection (after having cared for me previously, in an attack of four weeks' duration, at which time the throat had to be lanced); but, as he was then in good health, he thought there was no need to look into it for himself.

In November, 1905. I was healed in Christian Science of the liquor habit, and in May, 1908, the tobacco habit suddenly left me.

A recent visit to the little island of Guernsey forcibly reminded me of my former holiday there, about five years ago. I was then visiting a former matron in whose hospital I had once worked for two years as one of the nurses.

I feel that I have been tardy in acknowledging all that Christian Science has done for me. Until the last seven years, I was a sufferer from asthma in its most difficult form.

When Christian Science came to me, it found me seemingly at the very edge of the grave, material remedies having failed to help me. From childhood I had been frail, and despite an almost indomitable will, this resulted in a condition of chronic physical suffering punctuated* with seasons of complete collapse.

THE earnest desire that my experience in Christian Science may be helpful to some one else in the journey from sense to Soul, prompts me to try to tell how much I have to be thankful for. While still in high school, an agnostic shook the foundations of my religious faith so completely that for many years doubts and questionings were always with me.

The benefits which Christian Science has brought to me are so many, so great, that it would be impossible here to do more than hint at what I would like to say. For about eight years I had been a mental and physical wreck; I had no strength, and was almost afraid of my own shadow.

I too feel that it is my duty to express my gratitude for the numberless blessings which I have received through Christian Science, at a time when I was suffering mentally and physically. Two years ago I had a severe attack of illness, with very bad after effects.

Two years ago I was a very unhappy woman. For fifteen years I had known little but sickness and death,—long and terrible suffering for those I loved best, and some taking away so sudden and fearful that the old belief that it was all God's will and doing sorely taxed one's faith in a loving Father.