Testimonies of Healing

I was virtually snatched from the grave by Christian Science. My mother's family, most of them, passed away with consumption.

One year ago last July during the very hot weather, my youngest boy. thirteen years of age, was kicked by a horse, and his left leg broken just above the knee.

It is time that this tardy acknowledgment of the healing which Christian Science brought to me be given to the Field. In the fall of 1890 I began to suffer with pain in my back and hip, and, as the weeks went by, it became more severe.

In March, 1895, my whole system seemed to collapse, the trouble taking the form of four organic diseases, two of them being inflammation of the stomach and congestion of the liver. Minor troubles, such as rheumatism and neuralgia, also affected me.

Words are inadequate to express my gratitude to God and my thankfulness to our Leader, who has been such a willing instrument in God's hand in bringing to the true consciousness of man a religion that again heals the sick and enables the sinner to forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thought. My healing, which I wish to relate, was the healing of a case of consumption, constipation, and nervousness combined.

HOPING that the journey of some fellow-traveler may be brightened and encouraged by this sunshine, I send this testimony to our periodicals. Human existence seems to have ushered very many of us into a stormy experience.

While living in Chicago, I was under the doctor's care every day for a long time and employed a specialist for a very severe form of throat trouble,—laryngitis and pharyngitis. Although I had had operations, cauterizing, etc.

I have received many blessing from the study of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" written by Mrs. Eddy.

About a year ago, I was persuaded to try Christian Science for deafness of over twenty-five years' standing, which was gradually growing worse. Experts told me the drum of the right ear was destroyed and that of the left was also affected; I could not hear ordinary conversation, and at times was almost totally deaf.

Four years ago last June, while in Toledo, O. , I was physically healed of numerous ailments, among them chronic indigestion or nervous gastritis, insomnia, and severe rheumatism, all of about ten years' standing.