Testimonies of Healing

I was frail and sickly from my childhood, fettered by the belief that I had inherited all the ailments of my ancestors on both sides of the family, many of whom had passed away with that dreaded disease, consumption, and I was taught that I must of necessity become a victim of the same. The atmosphere of my home was extremely religious.

I feel I must make a public acknowledgment of the wonderful blessings I have received through this truth. From childhood I was always expressing illness of some kind, the doctors declaring that some of the troubles were hereditary, and although I had several severe operations, and everything was done to relieve me that the best medical skill could think of, I would be better for a time only, to fall back again into the most awful suffering.

Since reading the testimonies in the Christian Science Sentinel which has just arrived, I know I should delay no longer in gratefully acknowledging what Christian Science has done for me. I was never considered a hopeless invalid, but all my life I had suffered with tonsilitis, some form of nervous involuntary action, severe headaches, stomach trouble, and fully half the time I was considered "run down.

FOR many years before my attention was called especially to Christian Science, I had known that there existed such a movement, and although I had not carefully investigated its teachings, yet, like many others whom I have met and talked with since, I assumed to know all about it, and endorsed all the current criticism concerning it. I had formed a speculative belief about Christian Science, that it was a compound of all that was objectionable in all the different religious denominations, not including my own, which was then, to me, the only one exempt from fault.

A little over four years ago Christian Science found me in a hopeless condition. I had taken a course to be a trained nurse, and as a result of too heavy lifting I had hurt myself.

As I studied one of our Lesson-Sermons it brought back to me the conviction of truth which was unfolded through my healing. I had been a sick child, and later, for seven years, an invalid woman.

Ever since I can remember I have been striving to "be good. " I am grateful to Christian Science for enabling me to read my Bible more understandingly.

In the fall of 1887 I first heard the name of Christian Science. I was asked to sit in the room with a patient while a Scientist talked with her, and while sitting at the feet of the patient and holding her hand, I heard these words, which came to me as light into a dark room, "We are commanded to have but one God, and God is Life, now if there is but one God, there can be but one Life, and the warfare consists in overcoming the false sense of a life and power apart from God.

About five years ago I became interested in Christian Science, and I feel it to be my duty, as well as a blessed privilege, to give my testimony to the healing and preventing of sin, as well as sickness. At that time I was in terrible financial straits.

Several years ago I had a boil form under one knee. I had suffered from the same cause two years previous and was in a hospital two weeks with it.