Testimonies of Healing

It is with joy and a deep sense of gratitude that I give my testimony of the healing power of Christian Science. For many years I suffered from severe backaches and exhaustion, for two years from a stomach disease and extreme nervousness, and for twenty years I was a victim of hate, which embittered almost my entire life.

Three years ago I was subject to catarrhal trouble, and my nose became terribly inflamed and resulted in a very bad sore. I went to doctors for aid and was treated for over eighteen months, my trouble getting gradually worse.

While listening to some very fine music, and noticing with what apparent ease the director led a chorus of two hundred and twenty-three voices through the most difficult passages and brought all out in perfect harmony, I could not help being carried back in thought to the early history of this chorus, and the years of patient and loving effort that had been devoted to the accomplishment of this splendid attainment. Then my thoughts went back to the days when our Leader, Mrs.

For fifteen years I was a hopeless sufferer from asthma. I could neither eat nor sleep with any comfort, and scarcely knew the privilege of natural breathing.

Before coining to Christian Science, I had degenerated into a deplorable condition, mentally, morally, and physically, I had suffered torture for many years with asthma, and various other ailments had developed. I had lost my family, my health, my property, and I thought I was "of all men most miserable.

Christian Science has been to me Port after stormy seas, Peace after pain. From childhood all I had known of this wonderful regenerator was through ridicule and unwitting misrepresentation, so that it was not until long suffering had broken down the wall of prejudice that I determined to inquire at first hand into the Science.

Jesus said, "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" These words always came to my mind when I was asked to believe in a God who permitted, if He did not actually send, sorrow, sickness, want, and woe to His children: and it is because Christian Science has given to me a God who does none of these things, but who is in very truth infinite, omnipresent good, that I have gratefully accepted this wonderful truth, revealed to this age by Mrs. Eddy.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE was presented to us when we were in the direst need, physically, mentally, and financially. I had been a very dissatisfied, vacillating, and unreliable individual since boyhood, early acquiring the habit of going to the saloon for enjoyment and stimulus; consequently I fell heir to all the results of such practice, from sin to disease and poverty.

It gives me great pleasure to testify in behalf of Christian Science, as I dread even to think of what I would have been, but for the glorious truth it teaches. In May, 1904, I was stricken with what is known as St.

I feel that I have done wrong in not giving my testimony to the public before, as it might have benefited some one who is seeking help as I was over three years ago. About eleven years ago I suffered a great deal with what the doctors called a disease of the heart and stomach.