Testimonies of Healing

It was in April, 1904, that I first heard the "still, small voice" of the Christ and received healing through Christian Science; and the blessings have been so many since, that it would take too much space to name them. Reared from childhood in an intellectual atmosphere, my paternal grandfather having been an orthodox minister of the old school for forty years, and my father a deep student, ever seeking for the truth of all things, I began early to ponder and to study into the meaning of life, and came to the conclusion before I was twenty that though God probably existed in some remote place, still it was impossible to connect Him with my present living.

About four years ago our little boy, who was then three and a half years old, was suffering with a. skin disease for which there appeared to be no relief.

With my heart overflowing with gratitude to God, and to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker G. Eddy, I give this testimony of healing through Christian Science.

Five years have gone by since I first heard of Christian Science, and when I think of all the blessings I have received, I want to give thanks for all the good that has come to me. From earliest childhood I was delicate and a constant worry to my mother.

AFTER suffering for several years from nasal polypi, which at first would come one at a time, the disease gradually became worse and would affect both nostrils, with a large growth in each, and finally three or four would grow simultaneously, nearly filling the nose. These symptoms became alarming, producing so much distention in the face and congestion of the brain that apoplectic strokes were of frequent occurrence, each one being followed by paralysis of one side of the body, including the vocal organs, and in each recurrence of these conditions I would fall to the floor, speechless and perfectly helpless.

For twenty years previous to my healing I had been a hard drinker. I made several attempts to stop drinking.

I had suffered off and on for about fourteen years, but was able to keep at my work. For over a year previous to turning to Christian Science, however, I was entirely laid up, much of the time not even able to sit up.

I desire to speak of some of the benefits Christian Science has brought to our home. Our attention was first directed to the subject when a practitioner was called to see my husband's sister.

The testimonials in our periodicals are helpful to all their readers and I also wish to tell what Christian Science has done for me. My home is in Indian Territory, and when I first came here people constantly exclaimed, "This is a fearfully malarious country," and the result was a continual fear of chills and fever.

Four years ago those beautiful words, Christian Science, fell on my ears for the first time, and within four months thereafter the truth, as revealed in Science and Health, had removed scars from my eyes, resulting from twenty years of painful disease, which seemed to be culminating in blindness. Through fear of this my general health was in a very bad state, fast sinking into the many ills of nervous prostration.