Testimonies of Healing

I feel that I would be very ungrateful should I longer withhold a statement of some of the blessings I have received from Christian Science. Through the forethought of our beloved Leader, I am enabled to study the LessonSermons at home, and in this way I am gaining an increased understanding of perfect Love which casteth out fear, as will be seen by the following experience.

I should be glad to testify of the help I have received from Christian Science. It was about April of this year (1903) that I first heard about it.

About four years ago I heard of some wonderful healing through the efficacy of Christian Science. I said, "If Christian Science can produce such results in cases of chronic illness, where materia medica is powerless, this teaching must be of God, and must be in conformity with the Holy Scriptures, and I felt a desire to hear more of it.

I wish to express my gratitude for the blessings that have come to me as a result of my trip to Boston to attend the Communion service. Through my healing, I have been interested in the study of Christian Science for several years, and have had the benefit of class instruction, but apathy and indifference have prevented me from ever wishing to attend the Communion services before.

Although I had heard of Christian Science for several years, it was not until about two years ago that my attention was called to a practical demonstration of what is really meant by Christian Science. My wife, who had been suffering from constipation for over fifteen years, and had received the best medical aid without anything but temporary relief, was completely healed in about ten days by Christian Science.

When I read the many expressions of gratitude in the Christian Science periodicals,— Journal, Sentinel, and Herold, —from which I have received so much benefit, I feel that I am led to send in a few words to express my thanks for the many blessings which have come to me through Christian Science as taught in the writings of Mary Baker G. Eddy.

Having received so much benefit from the testimonies in the Journal and Sentinel, I send mine, hoping it may cheer some struggling heart. At the birth of our last baby, which took place in July, I received treatment from no one; but through the understanding of Christian Science which I had gained, I was enabled to demonstrate for myself.

Eight years ago I was healed in Christian Science of so-called incurable diseases and of many evil habits; of heart trouble dating from childhood, one member of our family having died from this trouble at the age of twenty years. Forty-two years ago I was given exemption from army duty by the army surgeon on account of hypertrophy of the heart, as named in the certificate, signifying enlarged muscles of that organ.

I have witnessed many beautiful demonstrations of Christian Science. One that was instantaneous brought so much peace to me, and was a means of so much help to others that I will tell it.

For the last ten years Christian Science has been my only aid in illness, my one hope of gaining true happiness. While seeking to be well at a famous "Health Institution," where kindness from physicians, treatments of many kinds, lovely out-of-door surroundings, etc.