Testimonies of Healing
On the Fourth of July, 1902, I went out to celebrate the day and started in with a six-inch cannon cracker. I held it in my right hand and lighted it with the left.
FIVE years ago, I was healed through Christian Science of valvular heart disease and dropsy of twenty years' standing. At the time of my healing I was immense in size.
Early in the spring of 1901, I noticed great difficulty in hearing sounds with my right ear. Instead of applying my best understanding of Christian Science to correct the false claim, for a month or so I paid little attention to it.
On July 4, 1898, I was visiting in Wilmington, Del. I awoke in the morning with a very severe pain in my side.
I cannot keep silent any longer, drinking in all the good that comes to me through the Journal, Sentinel , and Quarterly, and not express my gratitude. The very stones would cry out against me.
In grateful acknowledgment for daily and hourly blessings and in sweet assurance of joy and peace from God, our ever-present help, I endeavor to give my testimony to the truth of Christian Science. I am assured that it is the whole truth and nothing but the truth; that it can be demonstrated by all people in every nation, and I rejoice to see its growth.
I thought I would write a few lines showing how Christian Science has been assimilated and practically applied by my family of five children who have been in Science five years. They are active members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Sunday School in this city.
I became interested in Christian Science in November, 1900. My heart goes out with gratitude to God for the benefits which I have received through this understanding of Him.
Thanksgiving Day , 1900, was a day to be remembered, not as in the old thought, but of thankfulness to God for the new life which came to me through Christian Science. Four years last June I was treated by a Christian Scientist practitioner for stomach trouble, and was healed.
Christian Science has been a blessing to me and my family. I will tell of an experience we had about five weeks ago.