Testimonies of Healing

Twelve years ago I was healed through Christian Science, after three years and a half of invalidism, resulting from a serious abdominal trouble. I had recovered to some extent under the physician's care, but was unable to do anything as I had done before my illness.

Five years ago I heard for the first time of Christian Science. At that time no words more fittingly describe my condition than these, "Having no hope, and without God in the world.

In November, 1903, I was taken with severe pain in my face, and after using some remedies which gave no relief, I consulted a physician, who treated me for some time without benefiting me. He then advised me to go to a dentist whom he recommended, and I did so.

It is with gratitude I hereby relate the story of my healing through the truth as revealed in Christian Science and given to the world by Mrs. Eddy.

In the spring of 1898, while employed as a carrier in the post-office at Spokane, Wash. , as a result of exposure I was suddenly stricken with severe lung trouble, which later assumed a most alarming form, many times causing the fear that this attack would be my last.

The radical statement in our wonderful text-book, "Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on this subject" (Science and Health, p. 120), has proved itself incontrovertible to me.

Four  years' careful study of Science and Health has impressed me with the truth of these words of Professor David Starr Jordan: "The truth which another man has won from nature or from life is not our truth until we have lived it. Only that becomes real or helpful to any man which has cost the sweat of his brow, the effort of his brain, or the anguish of his soul.

It is with a feeling of deep gratitude and thankfulness that I can offer my testimony of how I was restored to health through Christian Science. For over twelve years I had been a sufferer from nervous trouble and minor ills.

I suffered from childhood and was counted delicate, physicians differing as to the cause of my illness. I had a severe nervous trouble, heart disease, etc.

I was a great sufferer for two years with kidney and bladder trouble. I was under the care of physicians all the time, but received no relief except as they would administer morphine.