Testimonies of Healing

I wish to tell of a demonstration which I had on the sixth of October. I was struck by an electric car as I attempted to cross the street and was thrown right underneath the car.

Dear Journal: —Yesterday, at an hour of need, you were placed in my hands. Let me say that you came as an angel messenger, and I wish to thank you for the comfort and help received after perusing your pages for a little while.

In December, 1890, two prominent Sioux City doctors told me I had a cystic tumor, and that by measurement they thought it would weigh twenty or twenty-five pounds. By February 1 it was so far developed that I was told that unless I was operated on immediately there was no help for me, so all arrangements were made to go to Chicago to the Hahnemann Hospital.

One effect of a lecture which was delivered in a church in a certain town against Christian Science was to arouse in one of its members a desire to investigate for himself, and he began to attend the Wednesday evening testimonial meetings and he has continued to attend ever since. He also engaged Science treatment for his wife, who had been an invalid for many years, and she was healed in a short time of consumption.

Since my first attendance at a Christian Science Church, I have not missed a Sunday service and, with two or three exceptions, I have been present each Wednesday evening. My first experience of physical healing was from the grip.

I had been a great sufferer for many years, with a constant pain in my head. I could get no rest or sleep without the use of drugs.

Christian Science has taught me, among other lessons, the necessity of giving if I expect to receive, and so much has been received through the pages of the Sentinel and Journal that I should be undeserving if I did not acknowledge it. Nearly four years ago "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" was handed me to read, and since then it has been guide and instructor, having healed me of numerous ills, the most troublesome being extreme nervousness and affected heart action, both claims seemingly hereditary.

I wish to express my gratitude and love for our literature, and the many helpful and uplifting thoughts which come to us every week and month through the Sentinel and Journal. I came into Christian Science through physical healing about five years ago, and while the healing seemed all to me when I realized I was healed, it is as nothing compared with the spiritual uplifting which came with the healing.

Though I thought I was a Christian, I failed to see the truth of the Bible, for it was a sealed book to me. Something over two years ago my life seemed full of sorrow, and my light, darkness.

I feel it my duty, as well as my privilege, to tell what Christian Science has done for me. I had been an invalid for over seventeen years, had passed through one operation, and was told I must pass through another before I could be well, but the operation did not make me well.