Testimonies of Healing
In June, 1906, my husband, who had been under medical care since the previous January, for an injury received at that time, was taken with fever, together with stomach and bowel trouble; but it was not until August that he consented to go to Kansas City, Mo. , to seek healing through Christian Science.
For a long time I have been desirous of telling other sufferers of my healing through Christian Science. In June, 1903, I was taken down with a dreaded fever, while playing an engagement in New Jersey as musical director.
About a year ago I had an experience for which I am very grateful. My sight having left me entirely, and the pain in my eyes being very severe, my husband called in five of the best physicians in Boise, but they could offer me no relief.
My attention having recently been called to a book, the writer of which attacks Christian Science, challenges proof of its cures, and refers to those who seek such cures as "the adult ignorant" who are in need of State supervision, I desire to tell something of my own experience with Christian Science. A little over a year ago I was a "scoffer" as regards Christian Science, but the healing of my son changed my views entirely.
THE legislative committee hearing held in Boston during last winter, to compel the services of registered physicians for children, recalls an experience in our family where such physicians figured conspicuously, but where the cure itself was due to Christian Science. As the case has never been published in either of the Christian Science periodicals I take pleasure in giving this testimony in grateful acknowledgment of the fact that God forgives all our iniquities and heals all our diseases.
Four years ago Christian Science found me in a very despondent and discouraged condition, as I had suffered for almost five years with a most stubborn as well as complicated case of eye trouble. I underwent two operations, both of which proved unsuccessful, and had every known treatment and the best specialists San Francisco afforded.
It is now a little over one year since I turned to Christian Science and was healed instantly of a very bad case of stomach trouble. I had not been able to eat any cooked food for more than a year and a half, but lived on milk, fruit, and an uncooked bread made by a physician in New York.
I have felt for some time that I should acknowledge what Christian Science has done for me and my family. I had been a church member from childhood, and found many warm and true friends thereby, but when sickness and sorrow came to me I did not get what I most needed.
My first acquaintance with Christian Science was made while reading some chapters of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, to which I was persuaded partly by the advice of a friend and partly by my own curiosity to know something of this new subject.
" Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. " This verse of the psalmist came to me as a direct command to open my lips and give thanks forever.