Testimonies of Healing

I have thought for a long time that I would write and tell you how wonderfully Christian Science sustained me in a trying hour. I was in the cyclone at Kirksville, Mo.

It is now four years since we began our investigation of Christian Science. It was through the healing of a neighbor who had suffered many years from different diseases and for five years had been an invalid.

When I came to Christian Science for healing, three years ago, I had been an invalid many years, being confined to a wheel-chair some of the time. I had been treated by many physicians; I had been in the Battle Creek, Mich.

I was brought into Science by being healed of inflammatory rheumatism in June, 1899. I will relate in part my experience, hoping it will help others.

Three years ago last January, worn, wasted, and despairing, I went for treatment to the reading rooms of First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York. The claim was hereditary consumption.

" The best sermon is the practice of Truth" (Science and Health, p. 97).

I am prompted to give to the Field a demonstration through which I have become very conscious of the power of God as set forth in Isaiah, 30:21. One morning my little boy awoke complaining of severe pains in the head, weariness, and other symptoms of fever.

It is about four years since I fully believed in Christian Science, although for several years before I had attended the Sunday meetings. There were some parts I could not understand.

I have received so much benefit from our literature, that I feel I must at least write a few lines of love and gratitude. A careful study of it has given me an understanding which I never dreamed could be obtained in this world.

The seed of spiritual thought has been sown in Wheaton and is gradually bearing fruit. Several cases of healing have been demonstrated through Christian Science, all proving that as we put into practice our understanding of Good, divine strength is made manifest and good works do follow.