Testimonies of Healing

I have awakened to the obligation which rests upon all to send their testimonies out over the Field through our publications. I came of a family of physicians, my father being a direct disciple of Hahnemann and a leading homoeopathic physician for many years.

I am glad to be a witness to the healing power of the Christ-truth revealed to humanity through the teachings of Christian Science. Seven years ago, while practising on the piano very vigorously and persistently for many hours a day, something seemed to snap in my arm.

For nearly two years I have been enjoying with Christian Scientists the blessings which Jesus brought to humanity, and which are again given to seekers after Truth in this age through the teaching of our Leader, Mrs. Eddy.

I was delicate from childhood, and my parents did not think it was possible for me to live more than a few years. I lived however, although there was not much improvement in my health.

In October, 1895, l came to live with a family who were Christian Scientists. I found the book Science and Health lying on the table, and began to read, and later to inquire what it was.

Christian Science has freed me from hereditary sick headache, from rheumatism which was inherited from both sides of the family, and from a peculiar phase of constipation which materia medica said was incurable. This last-named disease I was five years in overcoming, treating myself after taking class instruction.

When I was sixteen years of age I passed through a siege of sickness which was named by physicians, appendicitis. It seemed to be a bad case, as I was confined to my bed many weeks and was afterward weak for a long time.

It is with deep-felt gratitude that I give my testimony of what Christian Science has done for me. I suffered from eczema for twenty years, and although I consulted eminent physicians in the towns in which I lived, as well as the best specialists in London, I found the complaint gradually spreading over my body.

For several years I was troubled with what I believe is called "consumption of the blood. " My blood apparently dried up until I would be perfectly colorless, even to my lips, and so weak that to exert myself, even to talk, would exhaust me.

It is now seven months since my wonderful healing in Christian Science. For years I had suffered with heart disease, a trouble which appeared when I was twenty-one years old.