Testimonies of Healing

Several years ago I had the misfortune to sustain a fracture of the left leg which healed under surgical treatment after a somewhat protracted confinement. After I was able to get about again I experienced more or less difficulty in walking, and was obliged to use a crutch or cane even when traveling a comparatively short distance.

During the late summer and early autumn days of the year just past we had in our family a case of typhoid fever, which brought out a most beautiful demonstration of the power of Love and Truth over error. The patient was my son, a lad of eighteen, who wanted no treatment but Christian Science, and had no other.

I desire to tell through the Journal of my almost miraculous healing, miraculous to any who have not learned in Christian Science the omnipotence of Truth. In the year 1898 I was under the care of two doctors who told me I was suffering from internal trouble, heart and lung disease, so they thought it desirable to perform a surgical operation.

About eight years ago, I first saw Science and Health. I took it up and read a few pages but could not understand it.

I feel impelled to give to the Field some of the good that false pride has many times persuaded me to withhold. I came into this beautiful truth over five years ago, and never once have I been sorry for the step taken.

I became interested in Christian Science in January, 1900. Up to that time I don't suppose I had darkened the door of a church more than a dozen times in thirty-five years.

The blessings that have come to me and to my family through Christian Science are more than can be recounted. It is with a hope that I may help others as I have myself been helped through letters in the Sentinel and Journal that I write these lines.

To reassure and encourage those who have as yet but a small understanding of Christian Science, I give this early experience. Nine years ago this month my only remaining daughter was at the point of death.

In September of 1883 I met with a very serious accident. I fell from the second story of a building and received a compound comminuted fracture of one of my legs midway between ankle and knee, the bone protruding through my trousers into the ground.

Christian Science was first brought to my notice by a friend who had been healed and who lent me Science and Health, which I tried to read but returned in a short time, remarking that I could not understand it. While I was in Chicago during the World's Fair, staying with acquaintances who are Christian Scientists, and who I knew had experienced wonderful healing, this truth was again brought to my notice and rejected.