Testimonies of Healing

Having tested Christian Science, and experienced many proofs of its efficacy in meeting needs common to all mankind, it would indeed seem ungrateful to withhold my testimony in regard to what Christian Science has done for me. It is in a most sincere spirit of humility that I reflect upon neglected opportunities in this "passage from sense to Soul" (Science and Health, p.

THE following testimony represents an outburst of heart-joy for the healing of the body and for "the home of the soul" which I have found in Christian Science, and it is submitted with the hope that it may help some other sufferer to find a haven of rest and peace. If there ever was a day when some physician was not well acquainted with me, it was at such an early age that my memory has failed to record it.

I desire to relate what Christian Science has done for me. I became interested some four months ago, when I heard of its many healings.

Out on the Oklahoma prairie is where Christian Science found us, about ten years ago. I had been a sufferer most of my life, and through many years had received the careful attention of kind physicians.

With loving gratitude do I testify to what Christian Science has done for me. It has healed me of severe nervous trouble and blood-poisoning.

I had been a sufferer for eleven years with what materia medica termed distressing nervous and stomach troubles and attendant complications. During this time I was under the constant care of the most able physicians, and had lived in California by their advice; but I failed to obtain health until, after having given up all possible hope, Christian Science was mentioned to me, not by a Scientist but by a Jewish lady who was visiting us at the time.

I first became interested in Christian Science about three years ago, when I was healed of a so-called incurable disease of the kidneys, as diagnosed by the doctors. I had spent much time and money for medical treatment, but received no benefit, and was finally told that about all I could do was to keep on a very strict diet, and that this might prolong my life a few months, as the disease was hereditary and incurable.

For eighteen years of my life of twenty-five, I suffered from chronic lung, stomach, liver, and kidney troubles, also from a rupture. In January, 1905, a friend of the family advised a trial of Christian Science, and as I was apparently in a dying condition, and had been told by a local physician to prepare for the worst, I was very willing to try or do anything that might save my life.

Twenty years ago I was an agnostic. Teaching had been my occupation for many years, and in looking over the elementary sciences preparatory for class instruction, I was in a very vivid way impressed with the indestructibility of matter.

To Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science I owe absolutely everything that is worth while—every day of health, every ray of happiness, every truthful thought.