Testimonies of Healing
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.
I KNOW of no one who has greater reason to be thankful for Christian Science than I. When I was first treated I had not been able to sit up an hour a day for almost three years, and for many days at a time I did not sit up at all.
I am a little girl eleven years old. About two years ago I had a claim of St.
I want to say a word for Christian Science. I have often thought of doing so before, but error has said, "Not yet.
In 1 John, 3: 2, 3, we read "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Ours was a sickly family, and I have been able to meet many claims for them, and for others at a distance. I have not forgotten my experience with my first Journal , and I especially want to give it.