Testimonies of Healing
The promise contained in the third verse of the fortieth chapter of Isaiah, that the crooked shall be made straight, was fulfilled in my case, for when reading our text-book, Science and Health, just six years ago this month, I was instantaneously healed of what the doctor had pronounced lateral curvature of the spine. I was just looking into Science at that time, and it was my guide and comfort, when, two months later, I left for Paris to continue my musical studies; and during the three years and a half I remained on the other side I was never incapacited from my work for a single day.
On commencing work again at the opening of school I feel deeply grateful for the many blessings that have come to me through Christian Science. I have been healed of indigestion, constipation, and other troubles, and many ill effects resulting there from.
In Christian Science I have found the truth, and it has awakened a faith and hope in me, and established a joy unknown through my past years of suffering. I feel the deepest gratitude to Christian Science for the healing, both mental and physical, and to the dear friend who led me to a knowledge of this wonderful truth.
I do not think I could show my gratitude for the efficacy of Christian Science in any better way than by adding one more testimony to the many that have been given heretofore. About two years ago I was laid up with what the doctors pronounced Bright 's disease and valvular heart trouble.
My first experience in Christian Science came some ten years since. I had for years been a sufferer from what doctors called sciatic rheumatism.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.