Testimonies of Healing
I would like to give a little illustration of how naturally the unbiased child-thought accepts and assimilates Truth, while we older ones are struggling with our doubts and fears. Our little girl, two years and four months old while playing the other day, struck her eye against something.
It is nearly two and one half years since I embraced Christian Science. During the whole time I have tried to be a faithful student in the work, depending entirely upon spiritual means for my life and health.
In January, 1896 I was induced to take Christian Science treatment for eczema, from which I had suffered for nearly a year, during which time I had been in a hospital six months without any relief. Through the influence cf a nephew I commenced treatment with a Scientist, but with great misgiving.
About six months ago I became much interested in Christian Science. Before that time I was bitterly opposed to it, and never let an opportunity slip by when I could ridicule it.
I would like to give my testimony of what Christian Science has done for me. In September, 1895, I underwent an operation for catarrh of the head, the physicians inserting a rubber tube two and three quarter inches long.
The blessings I have received through Christian Sci ence are indeed manifold. I came to it about a year ago, very selfishly, for the healing, and as soon as I commenced to read Science and Health, I fought it every step of the way, for I said, these things cannot b possible, I have been taught the exact opposite all my lifetime.
I have felt for some time that it was my duty to tell what Christian Science has done for me. Many years I had been an invalid, not able to do any work or follow any real business.
I have been receiving you, my dear Journal, every month for over fourteen years. You seem like a cheerful friend, and it gives me fresh courage to read your pages.
An elderly lady in lifting, dislocated her back. There was a loud pop and an exclamation of pain, and in a moment she looked as though she had been sick for months, so great was the pain.
For a long time it has been in my thought to write to the Journal something of my experience in Christian Science, hoping that it would be of help to some one. My original interest in Science was more in the spiritual than in the physical side, and the beliefs I have received have been moral rather than physical.