Testimonies of Healing

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.

In the fall of 1893, I returned from the World's Fair in Chicago with the old sense of weariness that I knew so wall, and I felt sure that something must be done very soon, if I were to have sufficient strength to go through the school year, which began very soon. My work was that of primary teacher in a public school.

I was confined to my bed for eleven months with a running ulcer, the result of a spider bite received while spending the summer in Arkansas. The many months of suffering and the complications which arose from my long confinement left me in a very weakened condition.

Christian Science has done so much for me that I wish to express my gratitude to God and the dear Scientists who broke the bread of Life to me in Christ's name. Through Truth as taught in Science and Health by our Leader, Rev.

Sixteen years ago this summer I was suffering with Bright's disease, catarrh of the bladder, and dyspepsia. My food fermented, causing great distress, so I stopped eating different things until my diet was reduced to bread and water, and even that distressed me.

Every day is a thanksgiving day for the Christian Scientist. How glorious it is to awake every morning with the consciousness that we live, and move, and have our being in God,— universal, unchangeable Good,— and that nothing can harm us.