Testimonies of Healing

The possibilities of Christian Science, as a curative means, were presented to me after a life-time's suffering with stomach trouble and accompanying organic ailments. From my earliest days I was subject to a severe gastric affection, which became more virulent and recurrent as I advanced in years.

Many times I am asked if chronic or organic diseases can be healed through Christian Science. In reply to all I will say that I know from past experience they can.

I was healed eight years ago of rheumatism, by reading Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

The liquor habit had fastened itself upon me when I was still a very young man, and for at least twenty-five years I was compelled to fight it constantly. By sheer force of will, I would abstain from drink for months at a time, but the return to it seemed to be inevitable.

From my earliest recollection I did not know what it was to enjoy good health, suffering much of the time on account of defective sight, headaches, indigestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, and heart trouble. In the spring of 1895 there was serious eye trouble and a general breaking down of the system.

From a little child I was always sickly, suffering from spasms and nervousness in general. At the age of eight I grew worse, and upon physicians' advice was taken out of school.

I deem it a great privilege, as well as a duty I owe to the cause of Christian Science and to any seeker for the truth, to testify of the benefits received through Christian Science. Some twenty-three years ago my health began to fail.

I am fifty-two years of age, and am in good health, thanks to God, and to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who has so clearly shown us the way to Truth in her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

About eight months ago my eyes became very inflamed, causing me a great deal of pain and discomfort. I had been bicycling in a high wind, by the seaside, and a great deal of grit blew into my face and eyes, which caused a trouble that I imagine doctors would call ophthalmia.

When I turned to Christian Science some years ago, for the healing of my husband, I little dreamed of all that was to come to me personally through this seeking. I only wanted my husband to be well, and when I realized that physicians could not heal him permanently,—that during all the many years in which he had taken medicines for various physical troubles he was not in any wise benefited, I waked up to see that it was only a loss of time to longer depend on drugs for healing.