Testimonies of Healing

It is with a heart full of gratitude for the many blessings I have received through the study and practice of Christian Science, that I give this testimony of healing, with the earnest desire that all who read it may receive encouragement and help. Two years ago I came to Colorado, on account of consumption.

That I find life to-day worth living, I owe entirely to Christian Science. It found me after weary years of invalidism, during which every known remedy had been tried but without avail, and there seemed to be nothing left but to linger on in the same unhappy state.

From childhood I was at war with orthodox doctrines as taught me by my grandfather, a stern, uncompromising religionist. They aroused a fierce, antagonistic spirit within me.

I did not come into Christian Science through the door of physical healing for myself, but through the remarkable healing of my mother. Eighteen years ago she was so ill with cancer of the stomach that materia medica declared her case to be hopeless, and that she could not possibly live longer than six weeks.

I do not think that any one has greater cause to be grateful for Christian Science than I have. I could not command words to say how much this wonderful truth has done for me in the last eight years.

Although it is many years since I found health in Christian Science, that experience remains one of the most wonderful events in my life, and I now send an account of it with renewed thankfulness. For ten years I had been an invalid, seeking relief from various physicians and methods of cure, and from travel at home and abroad.

Four years ago I was convinced that I could live but a short time, and the dulness of despair was so unbearable that I felt but one regret, and that was the sorrow my death would bring to my family. Within two years I had lost four sisters from tuberculosis, two of them having died within one week, and from the standpoint of materia medica my own condition was very alarming.

Shortly after our family physician, who had attended us for thirty years, passed away, Christian Science was brought to my notice. I read Science and Health, but merely from curiosity, little thinking that it would fill a long-felt want.

Since Christian Science was brought to me, two and a half years ago, my blessings have indeed been manifold. Before that time I was sick in body and despondent in mind, while now I am well, strong, and happy.

Three years ago I was effectually debarred from any kind of clerical work by an eye trouble which the doctors called hypermetropia, and astigmatism which was of some fifteen years' standing. During the last six years, I had "suffered many things" from some of the best-known eye specialists in this State, but grew steadily worse.