Testimonies of Healing
A story is told of a gentleman who owned a garden in which he took great pride. One day he brought to his gardener a clipping from a choice grape-vine, asking him to plant it and give it special attention.
It is about four years since this blessed truth found us most wretched and miserable, but now all is changed, for I have proved that God is All in all. When I was married, over three years ago, I came to live with my husband's folks, who had found this blessed truth a short time before.
" He opened to us the Scriptures". As my eye fell upon these words recently, my thought turned from the two whom Jesus had helped as they walked toward Emmaus, to the present day, and as I realized how our Leader has opened the Scriptures to us, my heart was filled with a deeper sense of gratitude than ever, and I wish to express it by adding my testimony to that of the multitude of those who have found health, and a true concept of God and man through Mrs.
When I first heard of Christian Science, it did not appeal to me as anything that I wanted, for at that time I was a member of an orthodox church and thought I was perfectly satisfied with my God. From a child I loved to study the Bible and to know more about God, but I thought it was all right for any one to be sick, and that it must be God's will.
Words can hardly express how thankful I am for Christian Science. For ten years I was a sufferer from insomnia, and during this period, for weeks at a time, I was unable to sleep.
With a heart overflowing with gratitude I desire to testify to the efficacy of the spiritual method of healing as taught by Christ Jesus and given to us in this day by our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy.
About eight years ago I became interested in Christian Science through the healing of a disease for which the doctor recommended an operation and offered scarcely any hope of relief without it. I had made arrangements to go to the hospital for treatment, but through the earnest appeal of a lady who was not a Christian Scientist herself, but who knew of the efficacy of Christian Science healing in her own family, I concluded to postpone my visit and read Science and Health for a few days at least.
About eight years ago, I was given up by my physician, who could do no more for me, as he said medicine could do me no good, and that time might bring me relief. He gave up the case, but I had such severe attacks, that my beloved ones called in another physician, who examined me and told me that I had a tumor of three years growth.
In 1894 I began the study of Christian Science. At that time I was greatly in need of its healing truth.
The fact that little children are coming under the sweet influences of Christian Science, is very lovely to me, and my mind often travels backward over my childhood days, recalling many instances where, could I have been taught my true relationship to God, I would undoubtedly have been saved much mental and physical suffering. My parents were church members and brought their family up according to their light.