Testimonies of Healing

I desire to testify to my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. Previous to coming into Science I was addicted to the excessive use of liquor and opium.

For more than thirty years a student of medicine and of law,—necessarily absorbing the theories and tenets of the former profession, and in an active and diversified court practice acquiring the combative tendencies inseparable from the latter,—I feel that my condition of thought did not offer a hopeful field for the inculcation of Christian Science, unless it should appeal to reason and be indeed eternal truth. With my knowledge, limited as I now gladly admit it to have been, but which I then deemed extended, I ascribed the various healings of which I had read and heard, and the authenticity and verity of which I did not question, as having been due to some effective eradication of hysteria from the patient or as the result of hypnotic suggestion.

It is with gratitude and love that I give the following testimony. As I look back over the past three years, and realize all that Christian Science has brought to me, I feel I cannot be grateful enough to God and to Mrs.

In August, 1893, Christian Science came to me in an hour of dark despair. The sentence of death was hanging over me,—"only a question of a few days," the doctor had said.

I have often had a desire to make public what Christian Science has done for me. It would, however, be impossible for me to tell in a few words of all the blessings that I have received.

About seven years ago I became ill, and as was usual with me I called in a doctor, who treated me for some time and then advised me to go to the seashore for a change of scene and climate. I went, but returned in a worse condition than before going.

Christian Science was first recommended to me in 1897. for my daughter, who was bed fast with lung trouble.

It was about seven years ago that I first heard of Christian Science, and it appealed to me, as I had often wondered why there was no church that recognized all of the teachings of Christ Jesus. I seemed unable to investigate Christian Science at that time, but I drank in every word that friends said to me about it.

Words are inadequate to express my gratitude for the great blessings which I have received through Christian Science and its teaching. For about ten years I was a constant, and I might add a hopeless sufferer, because the many physicians whom I consulted could not locate the seat of the disease.

Christian Science found me a slave to the tobacco habit, and when I think of the years of servitude to that taskmaster I indeed rejoice for my redemption. When I was quite a young man my father gave me a gold watch if I would not smoke cigarettes for one year.