Testimonies of Healing

In looking back over the past seven years of my life, how thankfully do I realize that "the spiritual idea" does "guide all right desires in their passage from sense to Soul" (Science and Health, p. 566).

The beauty of the teachings of Christian Science lies in their practical usefulness. We have all our lives read the Bible, which is filled with protecting promises; yet they seldom appealed to us only as something that might have met the needs of humanity in ancient days.

Since the receipt of the above, the following letter has come to hand:— "My case has been one of continual development. The accident happened about four years ago, and the healing has been slow, but it has proved, at every step of the way, that human belief is nothing, until now the hand that was so seriously burned has nearly reached its normal condition, and I have as much use of it as I ever had.

My understanding of Christian Science has come slowly. My physical and mental transformation, the result of "the renewing" of my mind, as taught in the Bible and made plain in the blessed teaching of Christian Science, has therefore been very gradual, yet in two years much has been overcome.

I first heard of Christian Science in 1885 while visiting in the vicinity of Boston. I was a sickly child from birth and had sickness constantly held before my eyes; it seemed to grow with my growth until, when I reached womanhood, the days of suffering increased and life became a burden.

About ten years ago Science came to me when I needed it most, for the doctors said I was dying of consumption, and that nothing more could be done for me. One lung was entirely gone, the other nearly so, and I was little more than a bundle of bones, and could neither eat nor sleep.

For a number of years past my life has been so blessed through the teachings of Christian Science, that I want to add my testimony to that of the ever-increasing multitude who acknowledge its benign influence. Science has enabled me to overcome, by the sole application of its rules of practice, many cases of sickness, fear, accident, and to show marked progress in general health and capacity for work, in spite of a constitution generally termed delicate.

Through loving obedience alone can I express my gratitude for the many blessings received through the knowledge and application of Christian Science. I have seen many forms of disease healed through the applied knowledge of this grand truth.

I cannot enumerate the blessings I have received through Christian Science during my five years' experience, for they seem more in number than the sands of the sea. I was led to try Christian Science for the healing, and was not only relieved from my physical troubles, but I also found the truth that makes all free.

I wish to bear witness to some of the many blessings which Christian Science has brought to me. I want to give the experience, "the falling apple," that led me to put into immediate use the law of Truth, which enabled me to overcome the use of tobacco, intoxicants, and profanity.