Testimonies of Healing

Thankfulness for the blessings of Christian Science must find expression, and as the testimonies of others help us, we should reciprocate by sometimes writing our own experience. It seems easier, perhaps, to give these orally at the Wednesday services than to send them to the editors of the Journal and Sentinel ; but we should remember those who are far away from a Christian Science church, and whom a word of encouragement may thus reach through those messengers of Truth and Love so gladly welcomed in many a distant home.

I SHOULD like to make known to the sick and unhappy what Christian Science has done for me. I was thought to be a sickly child from my birth.

When I first came to Christian Science in 1897 I was a very sick woman, entirely discouraged. Soon after I was treated, I began to feel better.

During the year 1881 I was seized with curvature of the spine. By advice of one of the best surgeons of the state, I wore a plaster cast six months, when, as I seemed much improved, it was discarded.

I should like to tell the Field of a beautiful proof of the power of Truth which was given to me last summer. July 14, I received a letter from my boy's house master requesting me to take him home at once, as the doctor at the college thought him seriously unwell, and also that, in his opinion, the boy ought to be taken to see a London brain specialist.

For about eleven years I had been ailing with stomach troubles and constipation, which seemed to be getting worse and worse. Vomiting spells would come over me so severe and frequent that I would be completely worn out and unable to be of any use to anybody.

Over two years ago my eyes were healed by Christian Science treatment after having been pronounced incurable by several expert oculists. I was told they were nineteen degrees out of focus, and that while an operation might possibly give me relief, the chances were against me, and that I might become cross-eyed under it.

In the revised New Testament we learn that "sound doctrine" means "healthful teaching. " My thankfulness for the truly healthful teaching of Christian Science can never be expressed in words; the more I learn of it, the more I find it is what I have always wanted, but never dreamed of actually attaining, either now or in the future.

Through Christian Science, I have been healed of many ailments, the principal one was lameness caused by striking the knee cap against a sharp surface. I suffered a number of years with it, and was treated by different physicians, getting only temporary relief, if any.

With no attempt to state in detail the blessings I have experienced from Christian Science, I submit, in brief, the following testimonial, with the earnest desire that it may lighten the burden of some who are yet in deep bondage to material sense. Christian Science was first presented to me by my mother, who, knowing my dire distress, physically, kindly asked me to read a copy of the Journal.