Testimonies of Healing

I have been benefited so much by Christian Science, that I desire to give my testimony to the healing power of Truth. Three and a half years ago I was a mental and physical wreck.

It is five years since I was first healed by Christian Science of many physical and mental discords, having been in constant pain many years. I was out of tune with all my surroundings; being sensitive, I was always taking offence, but usually concealed this condition.

Error has kept me from testifying to my gratitude for the revelation of Truth which has come to me through Christian Science. For years I was haunted by a desire to enter the ministry, though I had been made a lawyer by the decision of my grandfather and my mother.

When my husband, two years ago, turned to Christian Science, as a last resort, I was at that time going regularly, three times a week, to a physician for the treatment of chronic nasal catarrh, which I had had from birth. All the twenty odd years of my life I had been to physician after physician nearly every day in the week for treatment.

In December, 1901, I took upon myself the profession of a follower of Christian Science. Our text-book says, "Unimproved opportunities will rebuke us when we suddenly claim the benefits of an experience we have not made our own, try to reap the harvest we have not sown, and wish to enter unlawfully into the labors of others.

I did not investigate Christian Science for the physical healing; I had passed through great tribulation, and was hungering and thirsting for a more spiritual religion. I had been a member of an orthodox church since childhood, and clung to its teaching as my only comfort; but I often remarked that the sermons, although so good, did not seem to satisfy me, yet I always prayed for God to give me wisdom and understanding.

I first heard of Christian Science in 1896, at Dayton, O. , where a dear friend was striving to walk in the narrow way At that time, however, my health was fairly good, and I thought, too, I never could be as unselfish as this friend.

At six years of age I had scarlet fever, and became subject to all the laws made for me by mortal mind, and they are many in connection with that disease. The seeming physical suffering I should not have minded so much, as the supposed lack of nervous energy and of brain power.

WHEN I was but a child, a friend of my mother visited us, bringing with her some Christian Science literature. I do not remember that she talked upon the subject, but one day she handed me one of her books, remarking that I might find something interesting in it.

I had suffered for many years from stomach and bowel trouble, and had three years of almost constant sickness. After medical skill and all material remedies had failed me, and when I felt that I was on the verge of death, I was induced to try Christian Science as a last resort.