Testimonies of Healing

As I read the Sentinel AND ponder the sweet messages of truth that it brings us from all parts of the globe, I feel more thankful than ever for Christian Science, and to our dear Leader for her tireless work for us. I had been reared a sickly child and cannot remember when I did not have one or more ailments,— hereditary throat trouble, liver complaint, and chronic constipation.

In childhood there came to me a deep and abiding desire to know and serve God, and at an early age I became a member of an orthodox church. I resolved to allow no opportunity to pass which would aid me in gaining my highest purpose, and I began early by binding myself to do those things which I felt were necessary to its attainment.

A few years ago while under a sense of darkness and despair caused by ill health and an unhappy home, Science and Health was loaned me with a request that I should read it. At that time my daughter was given up by materia medica to die of lingering consumption, supposed to have been inherited.

In the spring of 1901 a member of my family was relieved and eventually healed through Christian Science of a distressing ailment. At the suggestion of the practitioner, we attended both the Sunday and Wednesday evening services.

It is a pleasure for me to speak of what Christian Science has done for me. Three years ago I had, to material sense, a very serious illness.

In the fall of 1899 I reached Seattle after a rough experience of several years in the Klondike country. From a physical standpoint I was in a bad way.

While reading an article in the September Journal entitled, "The Cheerful Giver," a broad sense of giving was opened to me wherein I saw that I had not paid the tithe of testimony through our periodicals. Surely I have been abundantly blessed and should freely acknowledge the same.

Several years ago in an hour of great despair, Christian Science was presented to me by a loving member of my immediate family, who has been investigating and pondering the subject. I was immediately receptive of this blessed truth.

I wish to tell of what Christian Science has done for us, or tell what I can, for I could not begin to tell all. When I first came to this truth I had been a constant sufferer for thirteen years.

I am glad to have an opportunity to tell what Christian Science has done for me, both spiritually and physically. Four years ago I was first led to look into its teachings.