Testimonies of Healing

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

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.

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.

I am , as yet, what the true Christian Scientist terms "an outsider," though my application for membership in the Church of Christ, Scientist, is now in the hands of the committee, but I happen to know that members always delight when testimonies come in from so-called "outsiders," and I feel so very closely allied to the thought that I wish to testify to the good Christian Science has done in our household, and if not encroaching too much upon space, would like to be heard through the columns of the Journal and add briefly to the testimony of my wife. The healing of our daughter was certainly most wonderful.

The sense of love and joy that came to me as I caught the first ray of light through Christian Science will never be forgotten. It came while I was reading Science and Health.

Three years ago, and for several years before that time, I was on the verge of nervous prostration; but I had little children and no one but my husband to help me with them, and he having to attend to his business, I was obliged to keep up. In September, 1901, I began to think of Christian Science, and in October of the same year I bought Science and Health, read it through, but could understand very little of it.

Six years ago, through the influence of a friend who had been greatly benefited by Christian Science, I was led to seek its help, after being eight years a physical wreck. During these years of physical torture, I had the services of the very best medical skill in this city, in addition to the use of innumerable patent medicines, electricity, exercises of various kinds, and a sojourn at a famous health resort.