Testimonies of Healing

For some time, until about three years ago, I had been a constant sufferer from cramps in the bowels, frequent bilious attacks, and a sort of chest complaint, for which I went to the doctor for some months without any apparent help. Together with this state of things I became mentally very restless, hungering and thirsting for Truth; to know more of God and man's relation to Him.

In the summer of 1898 I began complaining of heart trouble, and not long after my stomach began troubling me. In August I was placed under the care of a physician with the hope that I might be built up and enabled to continue my work in the high school.

It was with considerable trepidation that I waited my first interview with a Christian Science practitioner. I had traveled five hundred miles for treatment for the liquor habit and to study Science, and that morning had omitted my customary bracer.

Since accepting Christian Science as my guide through life, I have often thought that my progress was slow; but when I compare the struggles for existence I had before I knew this beautiful Truth, with the life I have known since my acceptance, I think I have made a tremendous improvement. When Christian Science found me I was a very sorrowful, unhappy person, looking for peace and happiness.

While I was visiting some of my relatives during the past two months, one of them, a boy I had not seen for a long time, had a very violent claim. Being asked to take charge of the case, I enquired if he desired Christian Science treatment, and was told that he did.

The thought has come that I should acknowledge the great benefits that have come to me during my study of Christian Science in the past year. When Science came to me I was a very unhappy, dissatisfied woman, without a ray of hope that the future would be any less dreary than the past had been.

I wish to thank the Journal for the instruction, help, and timely blessings I have received from reading its pages, and especially so when we can take up the back numbers, and find them still filled to overflowing with good things. "The half has never been told" of the benefits that have been, and are being, derived from this source.

About two years ago I was healed of deafness through Christian Science treatment, but did not become interested in Science. Last spring I was taken very ill with inflammation of the bowels, and after almost starving and suffering untold agony for two weeks, I was taken home to die.

I am twelve years old, and live on a farm. My parents are Christian "Scientists, my mamma having been in Science five years.

I desire to acknowledge the many benefits derived from the study of Christian Science. It is to me a practical religion; one to be carried into a man's business as well as into the church and home.