Testimonies of Healing

I have already given to the Field some of the reasons why I am trying to be a Christian Scientist, and for the double purpose of expressing my gratitude for what Christian Science has done and is doing for me; and as an encouragement to those who may be seeking freedom and peace, I desire to bear further testimony to the fact that this truth does regenerate and elevate mankind. In the proportion that we learn and acknowledge our relationship to God, the things of the world lose their charm, we gain a grasp on things eternal, and come into our rightful heritage of abiding peace and joy and rest.

I am frequently asked why I gave up the practice of medicine to become a Christian Scientist? My reply is brief : That I might know God; "whom to know aright is Life eternal" (Science and Health, Pref. p.

I Consider it a duty to tell others of my experience in Christian Science. I had charge of an ice-machine, and one day while I had been out for a short time, some one came in, meddled with the screws, and thereby caused disorder.

When I have been asked how and when I first became interested in Christian Science, my answer has been, "I do not know, the growth into Science has been so gradual. When I was about fifteen years old, I came to live in the home of my aunt, who was a Christian Scientist.

It is now five years since the glorious truth of Christian Science came to set me free from what seemed a miserable reality, a life crippled by sickness and feeble health. I was considered delicate from a child, subject to all the ills that attack children, the house never without medicine, which seemed so necessary to our comfort and health.

It is with deep gratitude to God that I try to tell at least something of the blessing that Christian Science has been to me for more than five years. In June, 1898, I had been suffering for some weeks from anæmia, and from lameness caused by water on the knees.

Five years ago Christian Science was brought to my attention practically and forcibly through the healing of a friend. My wife had been ill for nearly four years, under the care of physicians and various systems of healing, but with no permanent benefit.

Impelled by a deep sense of loving gratitude and thankfulness for the knowledge gained through Christian Science, I hereby give my testimony to its healing power. Since early childhood I have always had a discharge from the ears, and as I grew up I was troubled every now and then with a tingling sensation in both of them.

Thirteen years ago my wife and I were healed by Christian Science of a number of so-called diseases which were pronounced utterly incurable by the physicians in New York State. I was born in a hotel, and when I got married I started a hotel for myself.

I Have often thought, How can I best express my gratitude to our beloved Leader for the priceless gift of Christian Science? I now know I can best show her my appreciation of this great truth by the daily practice of its teachings. I am young in Christian Science, having come to this well of pure water about two years ago, in search of health.