Testimonies of Healing

For a long time I have felt it a duty to write of the wonderful help I have received through Christian Science. When I first heard of Science I was a physical wreck, and had been told by several physicians that I could never be well.

My husband and myself did not come to Christian Science for healing. Our sister-in-law was wonderfully healed, and in a short time.

Christian Science came to my rescue at a time when a dark cloud was hanging over my life, which threatened to wreck utterly my health, and not only my own happiness, but that of my family as well. I had come to a time when the doctors could do no more for me, and I realized that if there were any help for me, it must be beyond human power.

With the sweet, soul-satisfying echoes of the Communion season still lingering in the corridors of thought, and with a larger perception of the great importance to the world at large of this second appearing to human consciousness of God-with-us through the Christ-truth, I cannot feel satisfied to withhold my grateful acknowledgment through our periodicals, of some of the manifold blessings that have come to me through the reception and understanding of Truth as revealed in Christian Science. As I look back over the past twenty years, I see a very young mother with two beautiful children, a son and a daughter.

It is now over four years since I first came to Christian Science for physical healing, and when I look back over these years and see how much I have been benefited, and how greatly my life has been changed since learning of this truth. I cannot find words to express all I feel.

When a lad attending school and later in college, I was an enthusiast over athletic exercises of all kinds, particularly base ball and tennis. I spent much time in active participation in these games, and in consequence certain diseases were believed to have been contracted.

Sadness and sighing have been the angels in disguise which led me to find the "light that shone in the darkness. " An endless longing to lift the arm of the weary toiler, to soothe the brow of the tired and world-sick, a yearning to lead man out of his sense-beclogged, hopeless existence, a far-reaching love and sympathy for the little helpless babe, uncared for and neglected,—these are a very few of the reasons why my heart reached out for the fountain of the living waters which our beloved Teacher and friend, Mrs.

Should I be asked to enumerate the blessings Christian Science has brought to me in the span of the three years during which I have tried to live its loving, holy precepts, I could but answer that they are too numerous to mention, but I cannot resist citing a few instances of God's ever-present help. My husband, whose health was in a very precarious condition, the after-effects of a long siege of pneumonia and grip and despair, clung to the promise that his health and happiness could be restored, and tried Christian Science.

I desire to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. About six years ago I was seriously injured internally.

The difference in the practical working of scholastic theology and of theology as taught in Christian Science has been strikingly demonstrated to me through experience at differing periods. In early womanhood I was a member of an orthodox church, and a faithful attendant upon the church services.