Testimonies of Healing
It was with a homesick heart and pain-racked body, and after the doctor and medicine had failed to relieve, that I was led to inquire into Christian Science. I plainly told the Scientist that I wanted nothing to do with it if it was not in accord with the Bible.
As you know, after leaving Chattanooga in February, 1900, we were under small-pox quarantine for sixty days. Three of us escaped entirely; one had a slight attack which was conquered in three days; only the father of the family going through with the full claim in regard to that dread disease.
On the 28th of last November I had nineteen teeth pulled without any pain, and having only a beautiful sense of God's loving presence. The day before, I went to see a dear Christian Science friend; I told her what was before me, and also that the only thing I feared was that I might faint.
After reading the testimonial of healing of eczema on page 578 of the December Journal, I felt that I had not done my duty to Christian Science, as I had failed to acknowledge my healing of that disease, having not even told of it at our testimonial meetings here. Eczema is hereditary in our family, and I had suffered more or less from it all my life, and at the time when I first heard of Christian Science I had two small spots on my face due to that disease.
About five years ago Christian Science came into my home. My wife, who had been an invalid for many years under a complication of claims, generally termed nervous prostration, was healed after a few treatments.
While I am not a member of the Christian Science Church, I am very much in earnest when I say that it has done much for me. I became interested in Christian Science about sixteen months ago.
I would like to tell the Journal of the healing of my grandmother, a woman over eighty-five years of age. She had been in failing health for many months, not being able to eat solid food except toast or rice, and suffering great distress nearly all the time.
It is nearly three years since I first heard of Christian Science, having watched impatiently for years for more enlightenment, for I realized more and more as life advanced, that Christ's message was misunderstood. I came from a very devout family of the Lutheran faith, and had studied the Bible since my early childhood.
When my little babe was three weeks old, she had sore eyes. They were like running sores, she could not open them herself at all.
As I receive a great benefit from reading our Journals and Sentinels, I desire to give my testimony, as to what Christian Science can do for one who has the cigarette habit. Three years and a half ago I was smoking from twenty to thirty cigarettes a day.