Testimonies of Healing

I came into Christian Science broken in health and with no hope of ever being any better. My case had been pronounced hopeless by physicians, who ordered a change of climate as a last resort.

I first heard of Christian Science about six years ago. I had been a sufferer from rheumatic trouble about three years, and unable to find permanent relief, when I was asked by a friend why I did not try Christian Science.

Christian Science has brought such happiness to me that I am more than glad to tell others of my experience. For a year before learning of this truth I had felt very ill— my strength seemed to be failing and I was greatly emaciated.

My heart sings a great song of praise for the many blessings which have come to me through Christian Science. For six years I was an invalid, several physicians of good repute pronouncing my case throat and lung trouble.

I am thankful to Christian Science for an interpretation of the Scriptures which has removed many of the mysteries and given me an understanding of God that I can reconcile with my common sense. I find in it an every-day religion to be practised in place of a Sunday one to be preached, and in proportion as I have lived up to my highest understanding, God's infinite supply of good has been opened up to me.

At the age of sixteen I was thrown from a carriage, thereby injuring my spine so seriously that for fifteen years after I never knew what it was to have a perfectly well day, having pain in the head and back much of the time, and almost constantly during the last two of the fifteen years. Three years prior to my coming into a knowledge of the truth, I was in such a condition that it was thought a trip to relatives in Iowa might be beneficial.

I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to God for what Christian Science has done for me. It is now about eight years since this truth found me.

In 1905 I asked for treatment in Christian Science for stomach trouble, and also commenced the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " Before this my health had for years been very poor.

Prompted by a reeling of gratitude, I take pleasure in making partial mention of the gain I have made, morally, mentally, and physically, through the knowledge of the truth as conveyed to us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy.

IN 1863, while a boy in college, I was attacked by a fever, from which I suffered greatly, and which left me with a badly diseased leg. I had an operation for this performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1868, and was told that the bone would give me no more trouble, but that some day the veins would cause me much suffering.