Testimonies of Healing

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.

After exhausting all other known means, it was as a physical wreck that I found that the Christ-Truth of the Scriptures, as revealed through the Christian Science textbook, sufficed to save. I had practised dental surgery so much of twenty years as my tyrannical body would allow, and with a fixed belief in the power of material medication, my religion was but superficial, and my subjugation to matter laws complete.

Some time in April, 1900, I was taken sick in Pueblo, Col. , with a severe pain in the head.

I have long felt a desire to tell of my physical healing and what Christian Science has done for me and my dear ones. I had a trouble for thirty-four years, which caused inflammation of the kidneys and nervous prostration.

Among the Mexicans who attend our services is a sewing woman named Susana Mendez, who is a Christian Scientist, and is a diligent worker in the Cause. She was the first Mexican to embrace Christian Science, and her husband soon followed.

I suffered for over twelve years from severe and chronic neuralgia, accompanied by the most painful headaches. These occurred about every two weeks during the twelve years; they were so terrible that I was compelled to go to bed,—and, to allay the pain, physicians would recommend my taking drugs.