Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science came to me slowly. I was brought into contact with it some twelve years ago, when my wife was healed of illness from which the doctors said she could not recover.

It is about nine years since I became interested in Christian Science. My husband was a soldier in the Civil War.

I should like to express my gratitude for the many benefits I have received through Christian Science, and to mention the great joy brought to me in the thought that man is not the helpless victim of sin, disease, and death. Through its teachings I have been able to overcome many errors.

How often have I longed to be able to put into words the depth of my gratitude for the help, the light, the rich blessings which the teachings of Christian Science have brought into my life, the experiences which have entered so deeply into my whole being. I remember when a child I had a very deep and confident faith in God.

My wife was for over twelve long, desolate years a sufferer with so-called nervous prostration, locomotor ataxia, Bright's disease, and paralysis that deprived her of the use of both eyes, right arm, hand, and leg; and finally she was declared by a council of physicians hopelessly insane with but a few days to live. In this dark and wretched condition, Christian Science found us; God sent His messenger of hope and blessing to us, and we at last found peace, comfort, and health, with an abundance of true happiness.

Although I have been a student of Christian Science but seven months, I recently had a most interesting experience of the power of Truth. I was one of the marshals in our Labor Day exercises here, and the procession was almost ready to form, when I mounted my horse.

I became interested in Christian Science some five years ago, the practical nature of its statements appealing to me, and I must say, at the outset, that with my little experience I have found it all and more than I ever dreamt of realizing on this plane of existence. I am satisfied that I have found Truth.

The usual opening service at a recent Wednesday evening meeting at Arkansas City, Kansas, was followed by testimonies which are here given, as nearly as possible, in substance. The First Reader said she often thought of the poor widow who cast two mites into the treasury and of what Jesus said of her.

I did not seek Christian Science for the physical healing; there were conditions in my life which were much harder to bear than any pain. I was so unhappy at times, that the thought often presented itself to me that if it were not for my children, I should rather die at once.

COME unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. " Many times have I read this verse, but never realized its full meaning until I found Christian Science.