Testimonies of Healing

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 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.

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.

About eight years ago I was a very sick woman, having gone through a severe operation, deriving but little benefit therefrom, followed by four years of great suffering. At last the physician decided that another operation was necessary.

Sometimes, when reading the many helpful and excellent articles in our Journals and Sentinels, the thought occurs to me: "How easily one can sit down and imbibe all these good things without a thought of the loving effort made to give them to us, without a thought of the faithful and loyal devotion to duty exemplified by our editors. " It seems to me that the next best thing to having the ability to write such articles is to recognize the help received therefrom and acknowledge the same.

While summering with an aunt and uncle at Silver Lake in the Adirondack I have had some good demonstrations in Christian Science, one of which I want to tell, hoping it will help some one as I myself have been helped by reading testimonials in the Journal and Sentinel. We have a nice horse of which I am very fond, and I am always glad when uncle allows me to lead him to the brook for water, and sometimes I ride on his back.

In 1897 my trouble began with what the doctor said was tumors of the breast. I was under his care for over a year and during the time he removed ten the largest the size of a goose egg and the smallest the size of a hickory nut.

How thankful I am for the life and strength I have found in Christian Science. When it knocked at the door of my home I was ready and waiting.