Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

In May, 1902, I was divinely led to attend a Christian Science Wednesday evening meeting, in the hope that I might hear something of a religious nature to take my mind from mental troubles. I had readied a state of mental depression from which it seemed that I could get no relief.

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.

I feel that it is my duty and a privilege to express my.

About four years ago, after I had tried different ways and means to be relieved from bodily suffering, a faithful friend called my attention to the teaching of Christian Science. After some opposition, I decided to investigate it, with the thought that if this teaching would he helpful, it was meant for me as well as for others; if it did not afford any help, I could put it aside again, but that I would find out and be convinced.

About a year ago I heard of Christian Science, and I wish to express my gratitude for the blessings which it has brought to me and my family. I was then suffering with an obstinate spinal disease which always caused me pain when I was working.

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.