Testimonies of Healing
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.
Dear Friends: —It is with great pleasure and deep gratitude that I tell you what Christian Science has done for me and my family. I had been sick for eighteen years and each year found me growing weaker and more helpless.
In the month of February, 1887, a neighbor came into my house with a letter from a mutual friend living in Chicago, who wrote that they had something new in Chicago called Christian Science, and it pertained to healing the sick; that a friend of hers, a Christian Scientist, was stopping in C. for a few days, and if we would call on her (giving the address) she would gladly tell us something about it.
Christian Science first came to my notice in the year 1886, but I gave it no thought only as something most unreasonable and false until it came to me to save my life and gave me something to live for. On November 20, 1886, a baby boy was born to us.
When the star of hope which Christian Science has restored to a burdened world, began to shed its beneficent rays over my darkened sense the incurable stage had been reached. Discouragement had assumed hopeless proportions.
In the year 1900, in a township in a county of the State of Illinois, the mother of a German family passed away and left a number of children,—mostly grown to maturity. One of the daughters seemed very dejected and mourned her mother very deeply.