Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science has done and is doing so much for me that I feel I must express my gratitude, not only to God, who has given us this wonderful gift, but also to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for her life of devotion and consecration, whereby we are enabled to make practical the many promises of God.

" Only by the way of most insistent and persistent reliance on God, do we come actually to realize that we live and move, and have our being in Him. " I was in "bondage to the flesh" for many long years, suffering— intensely from rheumatism.

I did not come into Christian Science through the physical healing but for spiritual uplifting. For many years I had been seeking for something better than I had hitherto known.

It is doubtless true that those who have been relieved through Christian Science of long-standing physical suffering have a feeling of gratitude for Christian Science that others may not appreciate. My entrance into Christian Science was through another door.

It is almost five years since I turned to God for help and began earnestly to obey Science. I had had class instruction a number of years before, but in a short time moved away to where there were no Christian Scientists, and though there never was one moment when I did not believe it truer fear kept me from proving it.

As I look back over the four years that I have been in Christian Science and realize the peace and happiness which have been mine during this time, I feel that I want to express to the world my gratitude. All during my life I had been in bondage to fear, so much so that I was afraid of everybody and everything.

For many years, in fact ever since I was a schoolgirl, I had been a semi-invalid,— up and around, but always obliged to be careful and to consider my health first. As the years went by, I became gradually worse, until the doctors pronounced my illness a very serious organic trouble.

It is more than eight years since I first began reading Science and Health, and though I did not understand for some time the truth contained in this book, I continued to read, for I felt it was a beautiful religion, and that there was surely something in it for me. I had for a long time been under medical treatment for throat and lung trouble, but was not improving.

Perhaps we do not appreciate as fully as we should, our Leader and her work for the world, until we each strive to reflect the light of Truth upon the darkened sense of our world about us, and try humbly to follow her as she follows Christ; then we return to her our loving gratitude and realize a clearer sense of appreciation of what she has done for us, for Christ's sake. For about six months previous to being led into Science, I tried daily to realize the promise.

There are none, no matter how humble and obscure, who do not wield some influence over others, and often, unknowingly, over many persons. In view of this fact, it would seem to be the duty of all who have been benefited by Christian Science, to publicly acknowledge the blessings that have come to them, in such a way that others, who are still under the bondage of sin and sickness, may be influenced to turn their attention to the great truth as exemplified in Christian Science, and thereby be brought to harmony and health.