Testimonies of Healing

I wish to give my testimony as to the power of Truth in the treatment of broken bones. A year ago, while at work among a lot of machinery, in trying to place a belt on a pulley, my foot slipped off the rung of a ladder on which I was standing, and a set screw of the revolving shaft caught the lower part of my trousers and in a moment my leg was wrapped about the shaft.

At times Christian Scientists are tempted to admit a sense of discouragement if in doing their work they do not immediately see its fruits, and to such I should like to give my testimony. Some seventeen years ago there was a member of my immediate family who had been very ill many months, during which time she had tried everything in the way of climate, physicians, etc.

The following testimony was given in a letter to a practitioner which we are permitted to use. —Ed.

I have received such marvelous benefit from Christian Science treatment after all other means had proved futile, that I wish to give my testimony for the encouragement of other sufferers, worn and weary from their ailments. I am a guard in the railway service of New South Wales, and was for many years a terrible sufferer from asthma, during which time I spent quite a small fortune on doctors and their medicines, seeking relief but finding none worthy of the name.

I feel I must not longer delay in writing to the Journal the beautiful demonstration we had of God's love and protecting care on last Christmas eve. We had decorated and lighted our tree as usual, and the room was full of guests, when suddenly my little boy (four years old) slipped and fell from the piano stool.

At midnight one Sabbath evening not long since, I was startled and awakened from an unpleasant dream. I hastily arose and going up-stairs found a member of the family in a collapsed condition.

I had a demonstration a few weeks ago that I wish to tell of, it meant so much to me. My husband has a place rented two or three miles from home, where sometimes he pastures his cows.

I do not know whether any one in the world has more reason to express gratitude for healing through Christian Science than I have. In the year 1894, I was taken very ill with chronic inflammation of the spinal cord, and suffered intensely for many weeks.

With a heart full of love and gratitude to God, and to our Leader, Rev. Mary Baker G.

About twelve years ago I first heard of Christian Science; members of my husband's family would frequently tell me about it and try to explain it to me. That the Comforter is ever-present was proved to me in the hour of need.