Testimonies of Healing

For ten years or more I was a partial invalid, with not the least hope of being well, or even relieved from pain which seemed to be more than any human being could bear. At times I had to keep hot poultices over my bowels the whole night long, to get even the least relief from a hardness which had formed in the lower part of the abdomen.

No one has more reason to be grateful to the Giver of all good and perfect gifts, and to the Founder of Christian Science, than myself, and when I read of the many who have assimilated the beauties of this wonderful Science by quietly and peacefully reading Mrs. Eddy's works, t is a matter of regret to me that I should have to come in "under the rod.

I would like to express my heartfelt thankfulness for the manifold blessings received through Christian Science. It is now about five and a half years since I first heard of it.

WHEN a child, I was suddenly attacked by blood-poisoning. Before that time I had always been perfectly well and strong, but from then my health was apparently destroyed.

I would like to relate my experience, and express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me and my family. A little over seven years ago I became interested in this truth through a school-teacher, who was not a Christian Scientist but who told me of many wonderful things which had been done by it.

Some months ago I was in Lexington, Ky. , visiting a lady who is a Christian Scientist.

I had been an invalid twelve years when I heard of Christian Science. Fourteen different physicians had told me I could never walk.

It is eight years since I first began reading Science and Health. At that time I was suffering from indigestion, severe sick headaches, which I had had from childhood, rheumatism, dropsy, and deafness of many years' standing.

I feel that the very least I can do in return for the blessings brought to me by Christian Science, is to give to others a knowledge of some of the great benefits I have received, so that if any one who reads these lines should be laboring under an ailment similar to that which I had, he will know where to turn for a very present help in time of trouble. I did not come into Science as a result of personal healing.

Words cannot express the gratitude I feel for what Christian Science has done for me and mine; and to Mrs. Eddy, to whom we all are indebted for this great truth, I never can manifest enough love and appreciation.