Testimonies of Healing

It has occurred to me several times to write my experience in Christian Science for our periodicals, of which I have been a constant reader for more than a year; but I have hesitated hitherto, feeling that the space might perhaps be more profitably employed. All my life I have been a searcher after truth, and not finding it in the orthodox church of which I was a member, I drifted away from its moorings, longing for the spiritual food which creed, dogma, and ritual failed to furnish, and sought amid the seemingly plausible statements of several current cults and isms to satisfy the craving of my soul.

In April, 1899, my wife informed me that she was going to have treatment in Christian Science for a very serious lung trouble which materia medica had failed to help. This was the first that I had heard of Christian Science, and during the period of her treatment I took up the investigation of this Science to learn whether it was or was not the truth.

Christian Science has been the only physician in our family for over two years, and I send this testimony in the hope that I may he able to help some despairing mother. My daughter when nearly twelve years of age was healed in Christian Science of bladder weakness of the worst form.

It is with a heart full of gratitude that I testify to what Christian Science has done for me. Nineteen years ago I suffered so severely with rheumatic pain that I had to be taken to a hospital, where I remained fourteen weeks; I was dismissed, however, without having been cured.

I am a homeopathic physician. My health broke down under the strain of a large practice, and I was obliged to give it all up, with no hope of ever being able to resume it.

I took up Christian Science in February, 1907, at which time I was healed of appendicitis. All my friends insisted that I should have an operation, but some members of the family who were Christian Scientists advised my trying Christian Science treatment.

Every opportunity to testify to the healing power of Christian Science is to me "indeed a privilege. After many years of suffering, during which time I had the best treatment that materia medica affords, I found myself in a most hopeless condition.

It is with a grateful heart that I want to tell what Christian Science has done for me. Four years ago I was taken with a severe nervous illness, according to the physicians' statement.

In April, 1908. I was taken sick with what was diagnosed by a physician as typhoid fever, and was removed to a hospital.

It is with a feeling of gratitude that I write this testimony to the efficacy of Christian Science. Prior to my healing I had suffered with a number of complaints, such as stomach and bowel trouble, also nervous debility for many years, which was followed by a general breakdown, with lung disease.