Testimonies of Healing

Looking back over fourteen years, since the uplifting and healing truth of Christian Science came to me, and noting the footsteps which have shown me more and more of the compass of this Science of Life, certain experiences which have especially lighted my pathway and given me a higher understanding of God and our relation to Him, stand out in consciousness as helpful landmarks. One such experience came years ago in a Wednesday evening meeting in a western city where I was at that time living.

I was led into Christian Science five years ago through the healing of a sister, and the sweet proof of the leading of Truth and its effects upon her, both spiritual and physical, helped to bring us out of the labyrinths of mortal mind. To-day we rejoice to know that the world is progressing in the understanding of this blessed truth which is constantly being made manifest in the life and teachings of our beloved Leader, the Rev.

In Science and Health, page 322, we read, "It is easier to desire truth than to rid one's self of error," and on page 380, we also read, "Truth is always the victor. " I am glad to say that I have demonstrated the truth of these two statements which, I believe, can be done with any of the statements of truth contained in Science and Health by Mrs.

My progress out of sense into Soul, has been very slow yet I am thankful to know that an invisible hand has been guiding me on, and still on, to a truer and larger living This has often been the entire opposite of a flowery path way, but there have been some triumphs which have cheered the way. I want to tell others of what Truth did for me in a time of accident last May.

When I was a boy I had typhoid fever, and it left me with what doctors call nerve weakness. When I grew to manhood this weakness caused me to have heart and stomach trouble.

Christian Science has done so much for me that I want to express a little of my gratitude through our periodicals. I had been an invalid since childhood, was confined to the bed ten months at one time, and had many shorter sicknesses.

I first heard of Christian Science about four years ago when I was in a very deplorable condition both mentally and physically. At that time I was just trying by every material means, including will-power, to regain my health and strength after a second very severe operation.

I wish to bear testimony to the wonderful regenerative influence of Truth in the purification of sense, or spiritual uplifting. The way has been long, covering a period of ten years, and there have been ups and downs, and times when I seemed to be standing still.

I have been greatly benefited by some of the testimonies of healing given in the Christian Science Sentinel, and believe it is a duty we owe to God and to mankind to testify, when Truth has done as much for us as it has for me. During the winter of 1888 and 1889, while attending a school of languages in New York City, T was overtaken by the grip.

My dear mother spent her lifetime preparing for the proverbial rainy day, which never came to her. Later, however, plenty of them came to me, and I found her lifetime preparation inadequate for my need.