Testimonies of Healing
Feeling to-day as I do, with a heart filled with gratitude for the very great and wonderful truths gained through Christian Science, I wish to tell of the benefits that have come to me both physically, and spiritually. For eight years I was sorely afflicted with a chronic form of rheumatic trouble.
"What hath God wrought?" What has Christian Science done for me? After ten years of experience in trying to follow the teachings of our text-book, Science and Health, what have I to be grateful for? There is indeed so much for which I would return thanks, that I can give only a faint idea of the blessings that have come to me through the unfolding to my consciousness of the truth of Christian Science. In the first place I am sure that I would not be here to-day to write this testimony if Christian Science had not come to my rescue when it did.
In September of last year a friend handed me a copy of The Christian Science Journal, which she asked me to read; but I found its teaching so different from anything I had ever read, that I laid it aside. When my friend asked me later if I was reading the Journal, I gave some excuse, and premised I would do so.
Among the thousands who have been healed through Christian Science, I rank as one of the most thankful. I am an electrician, and almost three years ago, while on duty one evening, I came in contact with forty-four hundred volts of electricity.
The testimonies I read in the periodicals and hear at the Wednesday evening meetings are so very helpful to me that I would like to tell just a little of the great benefit I have received since coming into Christian Science, four and a half years ago. It was not very long after hearing of Christian Science before I decided to give it a trial, although, like many others, I had very little faith in it at that time.
When my attention was first called to Christian Science, now about ten years ago, I was in a state of nervous exhaustion as the result of long illness and a surgical operation. I had also many other ailments, some of them chronic, which are usually supposed to accompany this state of health.
It is in a spirit of the deepest gratitude that I take this opportunity of telling what Christian Science has done and is doing daily for me and mine, hoping that thereby I may give as much help and encouragement to some one else as the testimonies of others have given me. I was always an intensely nervous and delicate child, and following an injury received at the age of two years, I was never considered strong.
I was healed in Christian Science, three years ago, of brain fever. About ten years ago my sister, three years older than I, a teacher in the public schools, died of this disease, after suffering terribly for six weeks.
The truth of the "scientific statement of being," given on page 468 in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, has been proven to me in the past year, and has brought me immeasurable blessings.
IT is with heartfelt thankfulness that I hereby make public acknowledgment of the great blessings which have come to me through the study and practice of Christian Science in my daily life. I find it quite impossible, however, to give adequate expression to my gratitude for the innumerable benefits I have derived from this wonderful truth.