Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.