Testimonies of Healing
It is now nearly seven years since Christian Science was first brought to my notice. Up to that time, I was almost continually under a physician's care, scarcely knowing a well day.
I have felt for a long time that I ought to tell of the many blessings that I and my family have received through Christian Science. It is almost two years since my husband was nearly blind,— could not bear the light at all, and for a long time we had given up all hope that he could ever see again.
In gratitude to God for the many blessings received through Christian Science, I wish to give my testimony. It is now over six years since I began to study Christian Science, and these six years have been the shortest, happiest, and fullest years of my life.
Christian Science has blessed me for years, and I feel the time has come to express my gratitude publicly. As is frequently the case, my first conviction came through physical healing.
Over five years ago I had a fall on the ice, which, seven months later, developed into an abscess of the spine, causing what the doctors called necrosis of the bone, which, according to their decree, necessitated an operation. After months of intense suffering and hospital life,— being sent there the second time,— I was pronounced incurable in that climate, and was sent to mountainous Colorado to try climate and altitude for tuberculosis.
From childhood I never was strong and well, and I can scarcely remember a time when I was not taking medicine for some ache or pain, which sometimes helped, but more often did not. While I was not bedridden, yet the good times most young girls have were denied me.
About three years and a half ago, whilst seeking for the very best I could find in the way of religion, I became interested in some Christian Science literature which had been placed in the public library at Akron, O. After reading Science and Health, I looked up the Christian Science Reading Room, where I was kindly received, and where I became a daily visitor.
The knowledge of Christian Science came to me through the gentle ministrations of its healing power. For about fifteen years I had suffered from asthma, not continuously, but with attacks lasting from a few days to a few months.
It is twelve years or more since I became a reader of the Christian Science text-book. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
About eighteen years ago I was first taken with nervous prostration. I was confined to my bed nine months.