Testimonies of Healing

In August, 1902, a friend lent me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, remarking that it was the text-book of Christian Scientists, who deny the reality of evil and who claim that healing is being done to-day as Jesus did it.

EIGHT years ago I came into Christian Science through my healing from lung trouble and other ailments from which I had suffered for over ten years. My normal school training was taken under difficulties, and it seemed as if my first year of teaching would be my last.

I gladly give my experience of how I was led to the truth through Christian Science. About three years ago I was taken with typhoid fever, which lasted for a couple of weeks, when there was a change for the better and all thought that I would soon be up; but such was not the case, as this was followed by what was called a re-infection, and the fever continued for several weeks longer.

One short year ago my acquaintance with Christian Science began through the healing of a day's illness, and the grain of truth which entered my consciousness through this apparently slight healing, was the beginning of a better, happier life. I can hardly recognize my state of mind today as compared with that of a year ago.

After having practised as an apothecary for more than twenty-five years, my first understanding of Christian Science came to me through reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our Leader, Mrs. Eddy.

My healing was considered one of the most remarkable cases on record, by physicians who were watching the case. I was very badly injured by one electric car colliding with another in which I was a passenger.

In Isaiah we find these words: "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. " It is, however, a common experience to try every suggested material remedy for our numerous woes, before we are willing to heed this call of Truth.

Long before I heard of Christian Science I wished for something higher and better than the religion of the church with which I was then connected, as it did not satisfy me. At the early age of eight years I began my search for God and was baptized in an orthodox church.

I should like to add my testimony to that of the many happy and grateful ones who have been helped by Christian Science. For ten years I had been constantly doctoring for Bright's disease, liver complaint, lung trouble, and other ailments too numerous to mention.

It is with a heart full of love and gratitude to God, and to our dear Leader, that I send this testimony to the Field. I had never been a strong girl; had always been subject to colds and chills, and suffered all my life from a delicate throat.