Testimonies of Healing

To say that I owe all that I hold dearest on earth to Christian Science, is in no way an exaggeration. Much has been done for me and my immediate family by a study of Christian Science, but the physical healings I count among the least of its blessings.

In March, 1904, while visiting relatives in San Francisco, I first heard of Christian Science. At that time I was wearing glasses and had worn them nearly two years, and when told that I need not use them any longer, I scoffed at the idea; but, seeing what benefit my brother's family had received through this blessed truth, I decided to give Christian Science a fair test, as I was very much dissatisfied with my old religious beliefs, which were of the Jewish faith.

Until I was about six years old I was a healthy, active child. Then I had an illness, and it was only after months of suffering that I recovered sufficiently to go about.

I feel that it is time for me to express my gratitude for the great blessings that have come to me through Christian Science. For more than fifteen years I suffered from periodical attacks of rheumatic trouble, also an internal disorder which caused me continual pain.

Reared from childhood in an atmosphere surcharged with the theories and hypotheses of materia medica, I grew to manhood with a reverence for it which amounted almost to awe. My religious training, while not as thorough as that pertaining to my physical welfare, was not wholly neglected In boyhood I attended Sunday School and was a frequent attendant at church; but I soon became dissatisfied with a concept of God which I could not understand,—a concept which I was told I must accept by faith and not try to comprehend.

Christian Science has brought me so many blessings that I wish to express my gratitude by relating my experience to the larger field which the periodicals feed. In September.

OVER three years ago, when surgery and medicine held no further possible help or hope, and the "end" was said to be very near, I sought healing in Christian Science. I had been an invalid for twenty-three years.

Before coming into Christian Science my life seemed so full of sickness and sorrow, and I was so tired and weary of it all, that I often longed for death. But once during my sickness, and a short time before my healing, I thought that I was going to die, and then came the question: Would anything be gained by death? Would I be any better off? There came the conviction that nothing whatever would be gained, and I have never had that desire since.

I think I feel as Paul must have felt when he said, "The love of God constraineth me;" my desire is so strong to express something of the gratitude I have for the joy, the peace of mind and body which I now possess, but which I did not have about nine years ago. As I look back over this period of time, to the cramped, sensitive, and self-centered person so full of fear and diffident to a pathetic degree, it is difficult to realize that personality as ever having been mine.

I think the query, "Where are the nine?" might well be addressed to me if I failed to testify to all that Christian Science has done for me. More than ten years ago my heart was injured during some violent exercise, and I became liable to attacks, any of which might have had a fatal termination.