Testimonies of Healing

I was troubled with astigmatism and wore glasses for ten years, one oculist telling me I must never go without them. By applying the teaching of Christian Science for an attack of grip, I was relieved in one day, and also awoke to the consciousness that I no longer had any use for glasses.

Through a friend, I heard of Christian Science about four years ago; and as a last resort tried its healing efficacy and was healed in a very short time of several diseases, one of which the best doctors in this city said never was known to be cured—prolapsus of rectum—without an operation. I had been under the doctors' care constantly for three years.

Before I heard of Christian Science I had been under the care of physicians for three years, who told me my trouble could not be helped, as I had had it from birth. I had two operations and would have a third but the doctor said I could not stand it.

In August, 1892, I was induced to try Christian Science. For about five years previous to that time I had suffered from weak eyes and had consulted some of the leading oculists of the state without satisfaction.

For more than eight years I suffered from what my physicians call fistula in ano. About four years ago this fistula was burned out by a physician in Youngstown, O.

It seems as if I ought to say a word of thanks for Christian Science. For thirteen years my family and I have been enjoying its blessings and they have not been few but many.

At the time I heard of Christian Science I did not believe in God or any religion. It seemed as if I were forced to study Christian Science, I could not help it.

It is now six years since we commenced the study of Christian Science, and we have a great deal to be thankful for, the writer especially. Hardly had I perceived the first truths of Science, before I felt that I must quit the tobacco habit, which had been a bosom companion for over fourteen years.

One Saturday morning I awoke with one side of my face very much swollen and suffering from a belief of incessant pain. I tried to handle the error by the constant declaration of Truth and the denial of error, but it seemed very stubborn, and at the end of about ten days the pain was almost unbearable, my face and throat were so swollen that I could not eat and could scarcely swallow, and I was in constant pain.

When I was a student in the High school, our class in literature was called upon one day to name some pieces of literature which we considered the best examples of the English language. The answer was given and the teacher added that the bible was considered the best example.