Testimonies of Healing
I became interested in Christian Science about ten years ago, through the healing of my little girl. When six months of age she developed what the physicians pronounced a serious bowel trouble.
One evening in the winter of 1905 I went home and found my little daughter, aged three and a half years, in a high fever and continuing to grow worse. After consultation with my wife about what course to pursue, I started down town to call in a physician.
Because of seeing and knowing of many demonstrations made by Christian Science, I at last turned to it for treatment after suffering for about two years. I had taken daily treatment from the doctors, besides medicines, but they said my diseases were incurable, although they held out the hope of enabling me to live a few months longer.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I give my experience for publication, hoping that others passing through the deep waters of affliction, as i did, may see a ray of hope and lay hold on eternal Truth as revealed to us in Christian Science. During the year 1894 my health began to fail; for several years I was able to do very little work, and the greater part of the time not any.
When nine years of age I was taken with a severe nervous trouble, which our family doctor said was due to overstudy, and that I must stop going to school. I went, however, until I was fifteen years old, when I was obliged to stop on account of poor health.
My healing in Christian Science has always seemed to me to be like that of the lame man who was healed by Peter and john at the gate Beautiful, and it was "without money and without price. " I had 'been sick all my life with supposedly inherited and chronic troubles.
From infancy I had been subject to disease, and before reaching maturity had had nearly all the ills to which the flesh is heir. My troubles finally developed into a chronic affection of the lungs, liver, and bowels.
It seems as if I could not go on accepting the blessings which have come to me through an understanding of Christian Science without sending in my testimony to the power of divine Love. From childhood, until gaining an understanding of Christian Science, I was in bondage to many physical and mental troubles, but through the power of Truth I was made free.
It is now nearly six years since I began the study of Christian Science. I was supposed to have inherited a tendency to lung trouble, which finally took the form of disease of the knee joint.
I am a train despatcher by profession, and through the healing by Christian Science which I have experienced, I am now able to continue in my responsible position, instead of having to give it up, disabled through a paralytic trouble of the right arm and hand. I had since childhood been troubled with severe nervousness, accompanied by headaches, etc.