Testimonies of Healing

I was an invalid for fourteen years, suffering with an acute form of indigestion, which seemed to baffle the skill of a number of physicians, besides several noted specialists. Each one in turn gave up my case, telling me that I should have to consider myself a partial invalid for the rest of my life, and that I must not eat certain articles of food, otherwise they would not answer for the consequences.

WHEN I first heard of Christian Science, five and a half years ago, I had just been told by my physician that nothing but a serious operation, the removal of two organs, would be any benefit to me. I had undergone one operation, and felt that 1 would rather die than submit to another.

I am filled with love and gratitude, for the blessings received through this quickening truth. I had suffered untold agony for over six years from sick headaches and heart trouble; my feet and hands were swollen all the time; I could not walk up the steps without pain; I could not sleep, or lie on my left side; at times I had a smothered feeling and could scarcely get my breath.

An article in The Christian Science Journal for August signed E. V.

Four years ago I was a sickly, peevish, unhappy woman filled with fear, perplexity, and doubt; depressed and uncertain as to the present and fearful of the future; struggling with dyspepsia and catarrhal difficulties of the head and throat, which, through the bias of education and observation I believed to be hereditary and from which there seemed no escape. Looking continually to medicine and to hygiene for help, occupying myself in the study of the health laws and their operations, I grew more and more discouraged and miserable.

When Christian Science found me, almost two years ago, I was a complete physical wreck "having no hope, and without God in the world," for I could not believe in a God who would send such suffering as was my daily experience. For many months I suffered from the results of a heavy cold which, the doctors said, had affected my lungs, and also brought on a complication of troubles from which I could not recover.

When I first read Christian Science literature, it was with the aid of a pair of reading glasses which I had used for about six years. By their aid I was able to read for an hour at the most, but even that amount of reading or writing used to cause a terrible aching pain at the back of my eyes.

I can best express my gratitude for our publications, by giving a few of the wonderful cases of healing which have proved God to be the only power. When called upon to apply the truth to destroy a severe illness, many times I have felt so utterly helpless that I could only be still, and declare in the words of the Master, "I can of mine own self do nothing.

I feel that I have great reason to be thankful for the healing power of Truth, which has been my salvation from sin and sickness. Several years ago I felt convinced that Christian Science was the truth, but instead of standing firm, I listened to error, chose evil instead of good, and continued to drift along in a sense of pleasure and life apart from God, until through great suffering I was forced to turn to Christian Science again, after all material remedies and human aid had proved futile to liberate me from the bondage of sin and sickness.

Shortly after taking up the study of Christian Science, I was discharged from my position on a newspaper, and with a young wife to care for and little hope of employment, because I had few acquaintances and because "times were bad," I had to turn to God. "He shall call upon me, and I will answer him I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him," was very real to me then, and it came about that I was not only reinstated on the same paper, but was given a better position and larger salary.