Testimonies of Healing

It is now fourteen years since I took my first Christian Science treatment. I had been an invalid eleven years, helpless a good deal of that time, suffering from insomnia, nervousness in an aggravated form, neuralgia, rheumatism, etc.

I have hesitated about writing for some time to acknowledge the benefits I have received in Christian Science, but hesitate no longer, as I recognize it to be a solemn duty thus to strive to help on the Truth publicly. I am fifty-six years old and I have had a life of peculiar vicissitudes and trials.

I am truly very grateful for even a small understanding of the omnipresence and omnipotence of God. Physically I feel that I have been very greatly benefited.

For thirty-six years I was a great sufferer, the result of a fall when about two years old. Aside from my many physical ailments I was very unhappy, although trying to appear cheerful for the sake of others.

All my life I had been subject to severe sick headaches, but for three years previous to my knowledge of Christian Science I suffered untold agony with headaches that my physicians did not understand, neither could they relieve me of them, or prevent my having them. It was expected that I would die in one of these attacks.

The first time my attention was called to Christian Science with sufficient definiteness to interest me was in September, 1897. I was then urged by a friend, who had been instantaneously healed of two severe claims of long standing, to attend the services of First Church, then meeting in the Auditorium.

It is not easy for us, perhaps, to see that the conditions of atmosphere have only that effect which the general thought admits. I would like to give a demonstration where this was proven.

To show how one can bar out this healing by standing in his own light, I will give my testimony, trusting it may reach and convince some poor sufferer that Christian Science is the Truth, and does surely heal and save from all manner of trouble. When I first heard of Christian Science I was as miserable as one could possibly be, and yet stand up and earn a living.

During the extreme hot weather in August, I attempted to change the position of a large electric fan, in order to throw the current of air in another direction; I had often done this without turning off the current, but on this occasion the fan slipped and in an instant both of my hands were in the fan, which was making from fifteen hundred to two thousand revolutions per minute. I knew I was badly hurt from the blood that was spattered over the wall by the fan.

It is not necessary for me to tell my old friends and acquaintances how great has been my deliverance from sickness and suffering, but I always have to tell them that it was through Christian Science that I recovered my health. I was miserable for ten years.