Testimonies of Healing

For twenty-five years I was a member of an orthodox church, loving it and seeking to be active in its good works During a part of this time I was a sufferer from physical ills but it never occurred to me that I should look to my church for relief. I was under the care of skilful physicians and used medicines in great quantity.

I was lame from birth. The condition was supposed to be prenatal, — a sort of birthmark, which gradually increased all my life, as nothing in a medical line could ever help me in the least.

Four years' study of Christian Science, and what a wonderful four years! As I look back, a feeling of awe and gratitude moves me. What a change! Four years of trying to know God—good—as He is, as against the far greater number spent in trying to know Him as He is generally conceived to be.

In this age of spiritual aspiration it is not surprising to find that many Christian Scientists, in their search after good, have passed through a variety of phases of human thought before they learned of the divine Principle through whom they are demonstrating life's problems to-day. I do not remember the time when I failed to be interested, in a vague sort of way, in the deep things of life.

For a longtime I have felt it a duty to let the world know some of the good I have received through Christian Science. Ten years ago I was, to sense, a very sick man.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude to our wise, patient, and loving Leader in Christian Science, that I offer this testimony of my healing. There seems to be a common impression among people who know little or nothing about Christian Science, that it may perhaps be of some benefit in cases of nervous or mental diseases, but cannot possibly restore broken or wasted tissue.

It is now over six years since I first heard of Christian Science. Surely, there never was a home that needed Truth any more than did ours.

For over twenty years my time was largely spent roving about the Pacific coast states from camp to camp, mostly as prospector and miner. I had no faith in "the substance of things hoped for.

I wish to record as briefly as possible the reasons which led me to turn to Christian Science for physical healing, and also the reasons for my acceptance of its spiritual teachings. Five years ago last winter I had reached "man's extremity," having failed to receive any lasting benefit from the different schools of medicine, a surgical operation, strict diet, three months' sojourn in each of two sanitariums, and changes of climate extending from the coast of Maine to the mountains of Colorado.

I want to express my gratitude to God, to Mrs. Eddy, and to the dear ones here who have so lovingly helped me to know the truth that makes us free.