Testimonies of Healing

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 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 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 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.

Two years ago two sisters and myself lived in British Guiana, South America. One of my sisters met with a great disappointment that seemed to deeply affect us all, as we dearly loved one another.

Looking forward as eagerly as I do to the arrival of the Journal and the Sentinel, I feel it to be only my duty to add my testimony to help swell the ranks of the ever-increasing and ever-interesting "Testimonies from the Field. " Some months ago one of my sisters was staying with me.

From a life of pain, unrest, nervous irritability, and discord, I have, through Christian Science, come into a harmonious life. For over thirty years I had not known what it was to be free from pain.

Science and Health was a revelation to me, and the reading of it was a joy unalloyed. Life was no longer a worried, wearisome existence, but freedom, peace, repose.

The physical healing in my immediate family has been very wonderful, but far more marvelous is the spiritual regeneration. During my childhood I attended the Congregational Church with my parents, who were members of that denomination.