Testimonies of Healing

" 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.

I was called upon to treat a lady recently, and on one of my visits she met me at the door and told me that her little boy was very ill (the little one was two and one half years old), that he had a fever and had been crying most of the day. I went into the room where he was and sat down by the bed.

When I take a retrospective glance at the blessings received through this new, yet old, gospel of healing, I find they are more than can be numbered. When I first came to Christian Science for help, I sought freedom from physical suffering only.

When I look back to the bondage from which I escaped, my heart overflows with thankfulness. Recently my thoughts reverted to the time, only a few years ago, when I was an almost constant sufferer from nervous headaches.

October 7, 1897, found me standing in front of a drug store, shaking from the effects of a chill, and trying to decide whether I should rely on Mind, or on matter, to heal me. My four-year-old boy and I had both been chilling since the last of July, and I had already given drugs a pretty fair trial, yet we were still shaking.

I wish to add my testimony to the efficacy of Christian Science treatment. As you know, I experienced a compound fracture of the left ankle on August 1, 1900.