Testimonies of Healing

About three months ago a proof of God's power was given us in a case of accident. While on the way to the train Wednesday morning a member of our family slipped on the ice.

It has come to me very clearly of late that possibly the slow healing of the troubles for which I principally took treatment in Christian Science, may be due to the fact that I have never yet publicly testified to all the many blessings this glorious Truth has brought to me. Hitherto I have always listened to the promptings of error, "Wait till the healing is perfect;" but realizing how very much pleasure I always obtain from reading the experiences of others in the Journal and Sentinel , I am filled with shame to think that I have not written long ago to try to tell a little of all that Christian Science has done for me.

Having read and heard many helpful testimonials about Christian Science, by which I have been much benefited in every way, I feel that I ought to contribute my little experience, showing how divine Love is ever active, to look for the lost sheep in every direction. Living in a little suburban town, I soon became acquainted with the next door neighbor.

I have long felt a desire to tell of my physical healing and what Christian Science has done for me. I had troubles for a good many years which caused inflammation of the kidneys, and nervous prostration.

" Here we have articles from all over this broad land,— from Maine to California, from Canada to Texas, from England, Germany, France. " As I read this in a Sentinel the desire grew and grew within me to add, "and Australia.

Having always had a deep sense of appreciation and gratitude for the Christian Science Journal, Sentinel, and Quarterly, I was asleep to the fact that I was falling far short of the law of Love when I did not express my gratitude and thankfulness to the loyal workers at headquarters who make it possible for us to have this pure literature of Christian Science unadulterated by error, with its messages of Truth and Love. I am often reminded of the parable that Jesus told to Simon the Pharisee, of the two debtors, one for a large sum the other for a smaller, surely my gratitude should be boundless, for much has been forgiven me, many sins destroyed, and much error overcome by the application of that Truth which Jesus taught, the knowledge of which he said would make us free.

IN my fifteen years' acquaintance with our text-book three events stand out like stars; namely, the reading of the first copy put into my hands; the searching through the revised edition of 1891; and, above all, the joy of this latest revision. Christian Science found me after all other means employed to heal had failed.

I had been afflicted with stomach trouble for seventeen years, taking drugs, dieting, drinking different mineral waters, and occasionally changing doctors, thinking one might cure where others had failed. But the result was always the same,—sometimes a little better for a short time, but never cured.

It is just two years since I learned the Truth as taught in Christian Science. At that time I was held by a claim of anaemia, the doctor having told me that if I did not take a complete rest for at least three months I would probably be an invalid for life.

It is with a heart overflowing with gratitude to God that I send my testimony to the Journal, hoping it may be of benefit to some one. I was instantaneously healed of insomnia of twenty years' standing, also of a very painful ailment(piles) which had troubled me greatly for a year and a half.