Testimonies of Healing

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.

Not physical healing but a seeking for peace brought me into a consciousness of the harmony and beauty of Truth. I desired relief from a sense of sorrow and hopelessness arising from the loss of a husband and an only child.

Less than two years ago I first heard of Christian Science. My mother visited us and asked me to investigate it.

I was raised in the Baptist faith, became a member of that church at the age of fifteen years, and was baptized, lived a member until I was married and left my parents and also left that church. Then I became a member of the Methodist Church, then the United Brethren.

It is now about four years since the Truth was permitted to enter into my household. During this time its blessings are many, too many for even a Journal testimony.

In 1891 I graduated from a training school for nurses in Syracuse, N. Y.

Eight years ago I turned to Christian Science for relief from physical and mental suffering without knowing anything about it except that it promised help when materia medica had failed. Before beginning treatment one day, my kind healer, a devoted student of Mrs.

From my early childhood I seem to have had faith in God, for my parents were earnest Christians, and trained me to honor and serve Him, but my heart often longed unspeakably for an answer to the many questions that presented themselves, and as I grew older and became a wife and mother the problems grew too; yet I felt sure that the light would come, and truly my soul waited upon God and asked Him to guide me into all Truth. In my church membership of first one church and then another, I was sometimes helped, sometimes disappointed: then mental science was investigated, with its varied solutions and presentations of opinions and beliefs.

For over fifteen years I had been troubled much with varicose veins, being compelled to wear a tight elastic bandage to relieve the pain. March, 1901, the swelling and pain became so severe that I was unable to do my work or to walk for two weeks.

I wish to thank the Journal and Sentinel for the help they have so often given me, and the proofs they offer to people who ask if their trouble can be healed. I have learned how to give thanks to God for the perfect health and happiness which is ever with me, and the pleasure I take in reading the Bible, because I understand a great deal of what I read, through the help of our text-book which is indeed the "Key to the Scriptures.