Testimonies of Healing

My experience in Christian Science has, from the first taste of Truth, been most practical and satisfying, and it is not easy to explain to myself just why I have so long withheld the "just acknowledgment" which our revered Leader says in Science and Health "is an effectual help" (Science and Health, p. 372).

A little more than a year has passed since the beautiful light of divine truth first dawned on my consciousness, through the healing of sickness of more than seven years' duration, and from which the best doctors obtainable could give no hope of recovery. This was accomplished by reading Science and Health and other writings of Mrs.

With the hope that it will help lift some other weary wanderer out of bondage and into an heritage of freedom and truth, I humbly offer to the Field this brief history of my experience with Christian Science. Three years ago a confirmed dyspeptic, under doctor's care, having tried many remedies without any permanent relief, I was brought in contact with Science by meeting a very dear relative whom I had not seen in many years, and who proved to be a Scientist.

For some time it has been my desire to tell the readers of the Journal what Christian Science has done for me and my family. About fourteen years ago I became a great sufferer from a very severe stomach trouble.

Four years ago, I was a physical, financial, and moral wreck. I applied the truths as taught in Christian Science, to these three errors; the physical defects were the first to yield and the most easily overcome.

I have often recalled a statement made by the practitioner to whom I first went for Christian Science treatment. I had suffered and doctored for some three years for a nervous trouble and general wretchedness, without any perceptible improvement, and had reached the point where I felt that life was certainly not worth living.

One evening in February, 1895, while riding with my husband in a spring wagon, we were thrown out, the wheel passed over my right limb below the knee and, becoming entangled with my clothing, I was dragged a distance of fifty feet, apparently under the wheel, the horse running away. My husband carried me home in his arms, a distance of half a mile.

For some time I have thought I ought to write of my healing in Christian Science, but I seemed to be prevented from doing so, many other things keeping me busy. Finally my friends wondered why I did not write my experience for publication, and I concluded that error was preventing me from doing my duty.

Jesus said to Peter, "Feed my sheep. " One way to reach his sheep has been opened to us through our periodicals, whereby we may tell of our healing through the Christ-truth.

Rev. Mary Baker G.