Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science has done so much for me the past year, in which I have tried to live up to its teachings, that I wish to express my gratitude to God, and to Mrs. Eddy for this wonderful truth.

I cannot refrain from giving my testimony of what Christian Science has done for me. I have been studying this truth since August, 1907, and am now in business for myself.

When one has passed through many years' experience of severe illness, both to one's self and family, when trouble comes in an unending cycle and sicknesses follow each other until pain and misery seem to stretch out limitlessly before one's view, when this was the prevailing condition until Christian Science changed all things, how could you or I show more gratitude than by trying to help others to be healthier and happier, and to enjoy the same blessings we now enjoy. When a sick man's greatest desire is health for a dear wife and himself, when all that he asks is just a chance to struggle on in search of happiness, and his unexpressed wish is that he may bear his burdens at least long enough to see those he loves free from a load of sickness and above want,—when these are all he desires from life, and when suddenly all good things are made a reality, and more, much more, than lie ever hoped for is rendered to him, then I ask, is it any great wonder that he and many others who have been sick should love to help those who are now struggling as they struggled and doubting as they doubted, those who are striving to overcome suffering and sorrow in their own lives? It is to those who now are sick and hopeless as I was, to those who are striving against sickness and pain to hold their positions, though fearful that the day is coming which will render them useless, a burden and a care to those they love; it is to the man who after working all day cares for a sick wife by night, his heart filled with fear and doubt of the morrow; it is to the brave wife, in whom hope is being fast killed,—it is to such as these that most of all I wish to write.

WITH a deep sense of thankfulness to God, and to our dear Leader, I would like to send my testimony to the healing power of Christian Science. It is now two and a half years since I began the study of this truth I had had very delicate health from childhood, and when thirteen years of age I met with a serious accident.

I write my testimony in grateful thanks for what Christian Science has done for me, and I hope that through it I may be able to reflect a little ray of good to some one in return for the great amount of good which has been reflected to me. On the twenty-first day of June, 1907, Christian Science found me—an invalid, given up to die by several physicians.

Five and a half years ago I picked up a Christian Science Journal in the weeds, at Monrovia, Cal. The testimonies arrested my attention, and led to the purchase of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. Over a year ago I was taken very sick, and after six weeks of suffering it was decided by several of our best physicians that an operation was necessary.

The wonderful blessings that have come to me through Christian Science, since my first acquaintance with it ten months ago, make each day one of thanksgiving. For three years my health was most wretched, having suffered with stomach, bowel, and heart trouble,—indeed, it seemed to me, all the ills of the flesh,—when on the 7th of July, 1907, I was stricken with my third attack of severe illness.

I wish to add my grateful testimony to that of the thousands of mothers who through Christian Science are being daily delivered from the torture and bondage of fear concerning their children. Although a close Bible student, teacher of a Bible class, and the wife of a minister, I gradually awoke to the realization that so far as our children were concerned I was without the least practical trust in the presence and power of God.

That Christian Science heals our mental as well as our bodily ills, I can from experience affirm. When first i saw Mrs.