Testimonies of Healing

Early in 1906 a friend took me to a Christian Science meeting, and although I did not comprehend what I heard, yet I did feel the presence of divine Love. I determined to test the healing, because I was then suffering from a severe nervous disease, with stomach and abdominal trouble, etc.

When I first investigated Christian Science it was not for physical healing, but for the spiritual teaching it offered, —for its presentation of the Christ-message. I had come into close fellowship with some people who were known as Christian Scientists, and was impressed with the understanding and practical help they received from their religion.

Previous to three years ago, at which time I began the study of Christian Science, I was constantly in a state of ill health and wretchedness, never knowing what peace of mind was. For over three years I suffered all the pangs of an aggravated form of nervous and bowel trouble, the strongest medicines known being administered without any relief whatever.

Christian Science has come into my life with such a large measure of good works, and has changed so many of the former conditions of discord, that I wish to add my testimony and sound a note of praise for this truth as a blessing to humanity. Four years ago Christian Science was brought to my attention through friends, and I was induced to buy the text-book, Science and Health, and to read it.

Four years ago I was living in San Jose, and was a great sufferer from a complication of diseases. My condition became more alarming and painful, and I was restricted to a milk diet.

I feel very thankful for the many blessings which have come to me through the understanding of Truth gained in Christian Science. It has been an ever-present help in time of sickness and seeming inharmony.

My heart is warm with especial gratefulness this morning for our blessed gift of the Lesson-Sermons—lessons prepared for us to work at daily, laid out faithfully and wisely for us by those whose very thought holds healing. The attraction of the regular Bible study from a spiritual standpoint appealed to me from my first dawning knowledge of Christian Science, and before I cared to leave my own church, even prior to my making any acquaintance among Scientists other than the practitioner whose kindly offices had quickly relieved me of nervous depression, sleeplessness, stomach trouble, and a host of similar woes, and of fear to a great extent.

In the year 1890 I turned to a dear Christian Science practitioner in Chicago, and asked earnestly for help for the bad condition of my heart. Our first meeting was brief but blessed, for I had found a treasure like the pearl of great price, of which the Bible tells us that the man sold all that he had and bought it.

About four years ago I was taken with stomach trouble, which steadily grew worse until I became so emaciated and weak that I was no longer able to walk to and from my work. During the first two years of my suffering I was unable to eat anything of a solid nature without its causing severe pain.

For several years I had been suffering from severe attacks of pain, which were becoming more frequent and more acute. I was obliged to seek special advice, and the doctors were agreed that the attacks were caused by an abnormal growth, with complications which would necessitate a serious operation.