Testimonies of Healing
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.
I have long wished to write to the Journal, and tell the great things that Truth has done for me, and I am now doing so while spending a short holiday in Wales. I can truly say I have been brought "out of the land of Egypt," and "the house of bondage.
Several years ago, while suffering from extreme nervousness, I went to a Christian Science healer hoping to find relief. I had acquaintances who were Scientists, but knew so little of what true Christian Science is, that I thought it only possible to receive help for so-called mental troubles.
Having had to-day a beautiful demonstration of divine Love. I feel constrained to write something by way of giving back to those by whom I have been helped, something in return.
About ten years ago I was stricken with what proved to be a malady, which left me with what the doctors called an incurable disease. As is often the case, some believed the report and some did not.
When I first heard of Christian Science I was seemingly "without hope and without God in this world. " I had strayed away from all religion, as I could not love a God who I thought sent me so much suffering.