Testimonies of Healing

As a student of the University of Illinois, I wish to tell briefly of my short experience with Christian Science. I was not healed of any bodily ailment, but I have been healed of mental conditions to which I had been subject for some time.

Christian Science came to me in the darkest hour of my life, my wife having just passed away, leaving me a year-old babe to care for. I was weighed down with lung and stomach trouble, and with the expectation of soon joining my companion, who had succumbed to the same diseases.

I look back with deep gratitude to God upon nearly four years' acquaintance with Christian Science, for the spiritual and physical blessings it has brought to me and my family. Because I have derived so much help from the testimonies of others, I hope that mine will be of use to some one.

AT the outset of this testimony it may be of interest to state that one in the ranks of journalism has surrendered completely to the Cause of Christian Science, after having been most active for many years on the line of bitter opposition. Truth came into my life less than a year ago, and the changes which have been effected since then are almost incredible.

For the last two years I have lived a happier, healthier, and better life than I had ever known before, through the help that has come to me in the understanding of Christian Science. I turned to this Science in the hope of receiving mental and physical help, and though my healing was slow, it was sure.

Through the study of Christian Science God has been revealed to me as all-knowing Principle, and that as we endeavor to express divine Love and conform ourselves to God's law we are healed and uplifted. Christian Science has brought untold happiness to our home and shown me the source of supply.

When questioning why I could not overcome some sickness or trouble, I have remembered these lines in Science and Health (p. 3),"Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more.

I have been in Christian Science about two and a half years, and in that time have received so much good that I am glad to tell of it, hoping thereby to benefit some one who may be looking for the truth. For a year previous I had been very ill with an acute organic disease, which was followed by a nervous breakdown.

I do not know how to express fully the gratitude I feel for the healing and the spiritual benefits I have received through Christian Science. After the best medical specialists whom we could find had told me that my wife's recovery was very doubtful, and that she could only hope for relief by means of a serious surgical operation, we turned in desperation to Christian Science.

From early childhood until about four years ago I was in poor health. At that time my condition had become so serious that my family and physician had little hope of my recovery.