Testimonies of Healing

I Must tell how beautifully the word of truth overcame error in the form of earache with my little boy two years and two months old. He awoke about one o'clock at night, complaining of his ear, and seemed to be in great pain.

When I first began to study Christian Science seriously, in common with most young students, I talked about it to every friend, and amongst many others, I selected the matron of a large hospital. I knew her to be a very broad-minded Christian, therefore I was not surprised at her evincing great interest.

The way I found the Truth, or the Truth found me, was this. About five years ago, we as a family moved to Fort Worth to live.

Having read in The Christian Science Journal of the wonderful things that have been done by means of Christian Science, and hoping that some sufferer finding himself or herself in the Slough of Despond, may be benefited thereby. I wish to relate my experience.

I Feel it is my duty to tell the Field a little of what Christian Science has done for me. I say a little, because it would be impossible in one letter to write about all the benefits I have received.

For many years I was a great sufferer from pain in the back of the head and stiff neck, and usually went about all the morning with a mustard plaster on the back of my neck and fly blisters behind each ear. The trouble became so serious that it extended to the face and jaw, and when eating I could feel the jaw slip out of place.

I Should like to give the following testimony of the healing in Science of a child, who, at the age of two years, had the disease known as tuberculosis of the bone in his leg. He was treated for three years by different physicians, the child growing worse and suffering such agony day and night that a consultation of physicians was called, and the only hope held out was the amputation of his leg.

Since coming into Christian Science some four years ago, I have had some very beautiful demonstrations, and have often felt it my duty to send them to Journal, for the benefit of others, but have kept putting it off from time to time. Having a demonstration a few weeks ago in which I realized as never before the ever-presence and all-power of God, I determined to delay no longer.

About two years ago I began to have spells of dizziness, which increased in violence and frequency to such an extent that I became afraid that I might fall on the street when walking or from my wheel when riding, as I had often to catch hold of railings or lean against any object or wall that I might happen to be near, and so I gave up bicycle riding almost entirely. After one of these spells I would be in a condition of stupidity and morbidness for a whole day and sometimes longer, during which time I would not wish to talk or be talked to.

About six years ago I became interested in hypnotism and mental science, and took up the study of it with a party who had devoted a great deal of time to those lines for fifteen years. We studied together for about three years.