Testimonies of Healing
It was the hand of divine Love that led me to Christian Science. From my childhood I had felt the presence of a divine power that was leading and protecting me.
Before the birth of my eldest child I suffered severely from ovarian trouble and prolapsus, which became so bad that I could scarcely walk at all. After the birth took place I was much worse.
I feel it a duty as well as a pleasure to testily to the wonderful regenerating power of Christian Science. My attention was first called to Christian Science in 1887, when my wife was healed of a very severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism through Christian Science treatment, after having been under the care of a physician for several weeks without being helped in the least.
Few can have had more reason for coming to Christian Science than I had, and yet after my previous experiences I might never have taken it up but for its name. When Christian Science was mentioned to me, rather more than two years ago, not having previously heard anything about it, the name gave the suggestion that it might be the very thing which had once seemed possible, in the vague hopes, the undefined feelings awakened by the Gospel words, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also," etc.
Like many others I accepted Christian Science when all else had failed. I cannot remember the time when I did not long to be a true Christian.
Like many others I came to Christian Science for the healing, at a time when I was a physical wreck, sick and weary of materia medica, which I had been trying for many years. Eleven years ago I was suffering from bronchial consumption, a trouble which I had from childhood and which was constantly growing worse.
I had for many years been a member of an orthodox church, when about six years ago my wife and youngest daughter became interested in Christian Science. My two older daughters and I were not interested in what we considered the peculiar teachings of Science, and only attended the services upon rare occasions.
About eight years ago I found myself in an alarming physical and mental condition. I could scarcely sleep, eat, breathe, or walk without great suffering.
Through the faithfulness of several loyal students of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and my own study of the Christian Science text-book, given to the world through the unselfish and untiring devotion of its author, Mrs. Eddy, I have been healed in body, and have gained a spiritual consciousness of the truth of being.
Words are wholly inadequate to tell of the darkness from which I have been rescued, or of my gratitude for deliverance. It is now three years since I began to study Christian Science.