Testimonies of Healing

For the last nine years I have known of Christian Science, and I was led to it through the healing of my wife. I had been greatly troubled with pain in the small of my back, rheumatism, and hemorrhoids.

Being German by nationality and my husband a saloon-keeper, when I first heard of Christian Science I thought it very beautiful but too good for me. A kind neighbor gave me some of the literature to read, and I became very much interested in it.

I am truly grateful to our Leader for her love and faithfulness in showing us the way to life and peace. It was Christian Science that healed me of rheumatism, indigestion of the bowels, insomnia, gravel stones, and other complications after I had suffered for more than ten years, and the doctors had rendered me every possible aid.

Sixteen years ago last March I attended a talk on Christian Science and came away convinced that if Christian Science was really what the speaker said it was, it must be the Comforter promised in the Gospel of St. John.

Of all the investments I have ever made those in Christian Science have brought the greatest return. The foremost of these have been health, happiness, and contentment, as well as improved financial conditions.

Having read the Journal regularly with increasing interest and profit for some time, I would add my testimony as to what Christian Science has done for me. For fifteen years I suffered with bronchial asthma, spinal trouble, constipation, and continual headache.

Five years ago I was in the last stages of nervous prostration. An older brother had passed on with the same disease, and as he had tried medicine, travel, electricity, etc.

It is a little over three years since I was healed through the knowledge of the truth, as taught in Christian Science. Words are inadequate to express my sense of gratitude for the rest and peace which it has brought to me.

If the experience of one who practised medicine for twelve years, and then came to Christian Science, may possibly help others who are in sorrow or trouble over the suffering of some loved one, perhaps quite without hope from medical aid; if it may be the means of bringing to others a fractional part of the joy and blessing that Christian Science is to me and my family now, it will be one more gift of love from the infinite storehouse, and an offering of gratitude to our Leader, who revealed this saving truth to the present age. I have closely watched many instances of the power of Truth in Christian Science to heal disease.

Two children were taken ill in the family, where I, with my daughter of seven, boarded last winter. Materia medica at first pronounced one case measles, the other, the result of vaccination.