Testimonies of Healing

Several years ago, before I knew anything about Christian Science, I was twice afflicted with paralysis of the face and was under medical treatment, including electricity, for several months each time. About a year ago I was again stricken in the same way, and in place of looking to materia medica for my healing I put myself under Christian Science treatment and at the end of four days I was completely healed,—not a trace left to tell the tale.

Christian Science has healed me of many ills and has enabled me to help others in marvelous ways. One woman, who had been in bed five years with consumption and spinal disease, who could not sit up or use her lower limbs and had been lifted on a sheet for months, who could not speak above a whisper, was healed in a short time so that she sat up and walked all over the house and sang.

About five and a half years ago, I turned to Christian Science for physical help, and not in vain. I was a victim of throat and lung trouble, also nervousness and insomnia, brought on by overwork and hard study.

From earliest childhood I was a sufferer from kidney troubles, which a few months ago began to manifest itself in a most malignant form, rapidly developing into Bright's disease. Materia medica seemed to give no relief, and I was about to yield to what I believed to be the inevitable, when persuaded by a friend to try Christian Science.

Error is ever ready to suggest to me when I desire to say something of my work, "There is so little to tell compared with the work of others. " But I wish this little to "stand not still," hence these words to express the great benefit I have received through all the Christian Science literature, and how the Journal and Sentinel are like cooling drink to the parched tongue.

Last winter, I scalded my face and neck severely with boiling tea. I had put the tea into an air-tight can on the stove, and when I tried to remove the cover, there was a loud report, and all the tea and tea leaves shot up into my face.

I want to express my gratitude for a demonstration I had recently in overcoming the fear of having dental work done. I took the dentist's chair at half past nine in the morning and did not leave it until one o'clock.

I Should like to tell the readers of the Journal how I was healed of consumption by Christian Science. I was taken suddenly sick in June, 1899.

I have often desired to write to the Journal and express, as well as words can, my gratitude for the many blessings Christian Science has brought to me. It is not so much physical help that is the cause of rejoicing, although before learning of this great Truth medicine was my meat and drink; but it is for the joy and peace gained from studying "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and the blessed assurance of God's presence to help in every time of need.

After twelve long years of sorrow and loss, and earnestly reaching out for Truth, Christian Science came to me with healing in its wings, at a time when I had entirely lost all hope, and even my belief in a God. Then, when plunged in despairing darkness, a friend persuaded me to go to a Wednesday evening meeting, "Just," as she said, "to see what Christian Science is.