Testimonies of Healing

I was led to try Christian Science several years ago for physical healing, after having tried both the prominent schools of medicine without receiving any benefit. I was feeling very much discouraged when one day my attention was attracted by several copies of a magazine displayed in the window of a periodical store.

I am a railroad man of thirty odd years' experience. I have occupied various positions of trust, which for the last twenty years have been on a gradually declining scale.

Science and Health, page 504, tells us that "the successive appearing of God's ideas is represented as taking place on so many evenings and mornings,—words which indicate, in the absence of solar time, spiritually clearer views of Him. " I love this explanation of the creation and miracle of light, for by it I have been lifted, somewhat, above the mortal conception of time, of periods measured by days and hours and planetary revolutions, into an ever-expanding realization of what light and creation really are.

It is with the tenderest sense of gratitude to our Mother in Israel for her recent words of loving counsel and wisdom that I send the following account of experiences with contagious diseases. To those who have been engaged in the practice of Christian Science for a number of years, it is blessed to perceive what our Leader means when she points us to Christ's command, "Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also;" and equally blessed to follow our Master in rendering unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, and unto God the things that are God's, as Mrs.

It was in August, 1893, while living in Kansas City, Mo. , that Christian Science was first presented to me.

Less than one year ago I was a nervous, irritable, almost a hopeless woman, doomed in my own thought to suffer all the ravages of consumption. Severe hemorrhages, three years before, had left me in a state of helpless terror, which only those who have watched day by day for the oft-recurring and alarming symptoms can understand.

I was an invalid for many years. My mental suffering was as hard to bear as the physical.

We feel sure that our readers will appreciate the following extracts from the testimony of a number of the witnesses in the case of The People vs. Merrill Reed et al.

The life of Christian Science practitioners and teachers should be so filled with earnest endeavor in their particular field of labor that they have time to look neither to the right nor to the left, but only to press forward towards the mark of the high calling to which they are called. When I have read the helpful articles in our publications, and have been refreshed and strengthened thereby, I have often said to myself, Why not send forth your gratitude by acknowledgment of the same? but error would say, Be silent, and let some more learned person speak.

In a family a few miles from a neighboring city there were two children,— a girl of twelve and a boy of five. The boy had been an invalid from babyhood.