Testimonies of Healing

I have always felt, since coming into Christian Science, that the Journal was a great help to all those who are ready for the Truth; but never did I realize that fact so fervently, as when visiting a town in Mississippi, a short time ago. Ten years ago I spent some time in this same town, and found no Scientists there.

I deem it my privilege and duty to tell the public of the manner in which I was led to find the Truth. I suffered from heart trouble, nervousness, and sinking spells for twenty years, the last three years I spent in bed.

My little son Kinsey has asked me several times to write this demonstration for the pages of the Journal. He was awakened one morning about four o'clock by a severe fit of coughing, and I saw he had a high fever also.

A little over two years ago I was a very great sufferer with what the doctors called fistula, and after having counsel, my attending physician said my only help was to have an operation, and as I was getting so weak and run down it must be at once, or other and more serious trouble would come from it. They gave me little encouragement of lasting benefit, but as there seemed no other way, I consented, and sent for my father to come and be with me.

I wish to tell how perfectly my little baby, eleven months old, was healed, hoping it will give some other mother courage and faith to try Christian Science, which I feel now is the only true way. My baby was given up by our doctor as beyond hope.

When I came to Christian Science, over eleven years ago, the purpose was to see if it would fill a seeming vacuum which nothing earthly could satisfy. Going into a class without any preparation or study, it sounded like a foreign language to me.

Having received so much benefit from Christian Science and it being nearly four years since I first became interested in it, I feel it my duty to send some of the demonstrations I have had, for the benefit of others. I had tracts sent me three years before I became really interested.

I will mention some of the blessings I have received. Christian Science has healed me of the tobacco and liquor habit, of using profane language, and of weak spine caused by an accident in a mine; it has enabled me to give up some of the most subtle beliefs of pleasure in matter; it has healed me of jaundice and fever; it has lifted that awful dread of the evil which the morrow might bring forth; it has taught me, through actual demonstration, the unreality of the fear of lack; it has destroyed hate in me and also the desire for revenge for some real or supposed wrong; it has shown me that those whom I supposed my worst enemies are really friends, inasmuch as their acts, although to appearance unfriendly at the time, were the means of bringing me into that state of despair which prepared me for Christian Science.

It is nearly five years since I became interested in Christian Science and about three years since I became a member of the Mother Church. Christian Science has brought me out of a long life of despair and suffering, and it is out of gratitude to God and in the hope that this experience of mine may help some poor mortal out of self-imposed bondage, that I am writing this testimonial.

Well do I remember the morning I asked a dear friend to give me Christian Science treatment. I had no hope that I should be healed, in fact it was against my will that I even asked, for at the most Science seemed only a form of hypnotism which might possibly help one while under the influence but could give no permanent relief.