Testimonies of Healing

I am truly very grateful for what Christian Science has done for me. For three long years I suffered day and night with severe pain in my back, and with cramps in my stomach.

Once in my childhood, in a bitter moment of disappointment and sorrow, I added to my evening prayer, "Lead me, oh God, and guide me in thy path, show me the way. " From then until now, this has been my prayer, and all these years when darkness and doubt seemed to assail me on every side, this prayer would ever return to me.

Nearly twelve years ago my attention was specially called to Christian Science by a friend, who brought Science and Health and asked me if I did not want to read it a little while that day? I did have a curiosity to find out what Christian Science is, as I had spent a good deal of time investigating other, so-called, advanced ideas as well as reading many orthodox religious books, chiefly perhaps because these books were well written rather rather than because their theories had anything satisfying in them. I was then adrift both as to religion and the philosophy of life; near to being an agnostic, dissatisfied and unhappy.

In June, 1903, when in the midst of joyous preparations to attend the Annual Meeting so dear to the hearts of all Christian Scientists, a telegram was received from a dear one living in a neighboring state for some one to be sent to her at once. I was asked to take the case.

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.

About eight years ago Christian Science was brought to me by a man's best friend on earth,—his wife. The word "Christian," I had heard all my life, and the word "Science" I was quite familiar with, but the linking of the two words together was new to me.

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.