Testimonies of Healing

When six years old I had an operation for squinting, after which it was found necessary for me to wear glasses, for if anything was attempted which required close sight, the eyes immediately crossed. At the age of fourteen, one eye was said to be practically useless.

In offering my testimony I wish to state that my doing so is purely voluntary. This has been left entirely to the dictates of my own conscience, a course which is pursued in Christian Science in all matters relating to the individual; and in no other relationship have I experienced such freedom or received such impetus to work out my own salvation, unquestioned and unrebuked, except as I asked for help.

I was confined to my bed for three months with varicose veins and heart trouble. My physician told me that an operation for the removal of a portion of the vein was necessary, but I had a great fear of the knife, so consulted another physician, who advised me to hold myself in readiness to go at any moment, as the condition of my heart indicated that I was liable to die instantly.

For sixteen years Christian Science has been the only remedy for all our ills. About seventeen years prior to hearing of Christian Science I was taken very ill, and a medical doctor who was called in said I was completely run down and that my blood had turned to water.

In 1899, after the birth of a daughter, my wife did not progress; but grew weaker every day. A physician was constantly attending to her, and at last I was informed that she had some internal trouble, which would require an operation.

A little over one year ago my body was racked with aches and pains innumerable. I suffered from chronic tonsilitis, hay fever, rheumatism, cancer, and nervous prostration.

In 1898, a friend who was on a visit here hunted me me up to share with me the good tidings, the wonderful message contained in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " She found me a physical and almost a mental wreck—the result of overwork, worry, and the grip—about to lose my position as official stenographer of the United States Courts".

I was an invalid from the time of my birth, and it was believed that I had inherited spinal and kidney disease,— since all my life I suffered a great deal from them. —also a very weak stomach.

I feel it my great privilege to give the following testimony as to the healing power of Christian Science which has come into my experience. Some thirty years ago my ankle was put out of joint by an accident.

I feel compelled to make a public acknowledgment of my healing through Christian Science. From earliest youth I had trouble with my blood, also indigestion; and during several years' stay in a hot climate, fifteen years ago, I was attacked with rheumatism, which developed into a chronic disease and affected my nerves and marrow.