Testimonies of Healing
For the past year a desire to attend the communion at the Mother Church in June, 1902, has been ever with me. The way has never seemed more obstructed.
Four years ago, we first learned that my wife had an internal cancer. We were then living in Colorado where we could not get very good medical help.
In 1886 I suffered from severe headaches and lost thirty five pounds in weight. Following the advice of my physician, I gave up a good situation as general office man, thinking my trouble was caused by close confinement.
I have often wanted to give my testimony regarding the great benefits I have received from Christian Science, but have always been held back by the thought that nobody. would care particularly for such experiences as mine; however, in the last two years, constituting the time of my practice, I have not known one testimony that has not in some particular been a great help to me as well as to my patients.
WE feel that we should like to tell the Field of the meetings that we are holding in Richmond, Surrey, England, and to show our gratitude by expressing the encouragement we have received by the growth of the work. In the autumn of 1900, a few people began to meet in a private house to study the Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly.
A friend has asked me to write my experience for the Journal and I am very glad to do so if it can be of benefit to any one seeking for health and happiness along the lines of Christian Science. I was in "bondage to the flesh" for many years, suffering intensely from rheumatism.
About a month ago I was trying to shut a very stiff window. I pushed and pushed as hard as I could.
It would take too long to enumerate all the ills I had when I began treatment. I had been almost an invalid for years.
Almost my first experience in Christian Science was the healing of astigmatism, for which I had worn glasses for years. After receiving less than a week's treatment I removed my glasses and have had no further use for them.
Christian Science found me a physical wreck, but through its teachings I am well and strong, having been rescued from the operating table and from many physicians from whom I had "suffered many things .