Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

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.

We hear it often affirmed that Christian Science is good enough for nervous troubles, but when organic diseases, or disorder arising from accidents appear, it is high time to appeal to the surgeon or materia medica . The following experience may not appeal to such as rest blindly upon this dictum of mortal mind, but it may help some one seeking for something beyond matter and material theories and their supposititious laws.

In July, 1897, I was induced (rather against my will) to go to hear a lecture on what was called Christian (or, I think, Practical) Metaphysics. I was in a condition of great mental and physical misery, and my thought being very impressible, that which was in line with Christian Science in the lecture chained my attention, for I recognize now that what was said was not pure Christian Science teaching.

About five years ago Science and Health came into my possession in this way. A lady of my acquaintance bought several money orders at my post-office and I learned she was being treated by a Christian Scientist.

It has been my happy experience to witness, these past few months, the healing, through Christian Science treatment, of a serious case of consumption. Early this year, a member of my family received a letter from a young man, an inmate of one of our hospitals, asking for a little financial help, as he was "dying of consumption," and needed a few comforts not supplied by the hospital.

A little over two years ago my lingering illness culminated in hemorrhages of the lungs. For about eight years I had endured all the agonies of a dyspeptic besides suffering from a number of other ailments.