Testimonies of Healing

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE found me, thirteen years ago, discouraged and disheartened. My wife was a hopeless invalid, and my two children were afflicted with chronic diseases; I was in debt, had lost interest in political and church work, and apparently the worst was yet to come.

" It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: .

I bear glad witness to the healing and saving power of the Word of Truth. I have been healed of sin, sickness, discouragement, and fear through Christian Science, which came to me when life seemed very empty.

It is indeed with a heart overflowing with gratitude that I give my testimony of healing through Christian Science. We have known of Christian Science only three years, but more good has come to us in that time than ever before.

For years I suffered intensely with headaches, the attacks lasting two or three days of each week, and I seemed to be almost a nervous wreck. I tried many physicians, including specialists in this country and in England, but I grew worse steadily.

Between two and three years ago, I lay upon my bed helpless, my right hand, arm, shoulder, and neck being seemingly powerless. In my extremity I called in a Christian Science practitioner, and in that first treatment I was raised from the bed, healed of the disease.

In submitting this testimony for publication my object is twofold: first, as a beneficiary of Christian Science I desire to express my gratitude through its periodicals to Mrs. Eddy, author of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," whose pages have given me so much help both physically and spiritually; second, the hope is entertained that this will meet the eye of some sufferers, and be the means of inducing them to come and drink at the fount of this healing truth and have their sorrows turned to joy and their supplications to thanksgiving, not only for the healing of their bodies, but for the richness of the joy that will flood their lives, making of each duty to their fellows a votive offering on the altar of divine Love.

Although Christian Science healing came to me in Germany, I am an American, born of Puritan stock, being directly descended from William Bradford, who wrote the log of the Mayflower and became governor of the New England colony. Thirty-two years of my life were spent in Constantinople, where my husband was the Vice Consul General for the United States for fifteen years, and there I contracted a bowel complaint which clung to me for fourteen years.

Words fail when I attempt to express my gratitude to God, and to Mrs. Eddy for the wonderful truth contained in "the little book," Science and Health, which as a "Key to the Scriptures" has opened up to me that sacred volume, for I never understood the Bible before.

I HAVE now been in Christian Science for something over five years, and most of that time have been active in the church work. I came to it a broken-down man, overcome by the cares of business and the burdens of disease.