Testimonies of Healing

In 1896 my trouble began with what the doctors said was chronic dyspepsia and bowel trouble. I tried all the best of our home physicians, and they could do nothing for me.

A lady attending our Communion services in December, 1899, was healed during the morning service of a disease that had settled in her arm for over a year. A young lady who was troubled for some years with stomach and organic troubles, and had been attended by some of the leading physicians, who pronounced her a lifelong invalid, was completely healed by reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and attending the services.

Our little son, then three years old, was taken one morning with vomiting and fever, which soon grew worse, and in" a few hours he became unconscious. I wrote to our teacher and healer that morning, and mentioned the case, but did not ask for special treatment, as I thought I could make the demonstration myself, having been successful twice before when he had been taken in much the same way.

For the benefit of some poor mortal who may be hesitating between materia medica and Christian Science. I will give two experiences I had with the same disease, one under the care of physicians and the other under Christian Science, and note the difference in the two methods.

It is sometimes asked if Christian Science treatment can be relied on in acute cases. I am glad to give the following proof of its power on such occasions.

In the Sentinel for May 17 an article headed "A Few Suggestions," reminded us, that although we had given some of our experiences and demonstrations at our Wednesday evening meetings, we had never sent any to our publications. We have studied Christian Science less than a year, and our understanding of this blessed Truth sometimes seems very small, yet in spite of slow progress we have had some very beautiful demonstrations.

About four years ago I was sent to Southern California for my health, several doctors having assured me of a perforation in one lung, which an attack of so-called bronchial pneumonia had aggravated. The information was also given me that if I should return in the spring to my temporary home in Cincinnati, I would not be able to stay there during the enervating summer heat.

Christian Science was first brought to my attention in 1894 through the healing of my father of serious diseases, after several years of experimenting by well-known physicians of Oakland and San Francisco. At the time of commencing Science treatment he could walk only by the aid of crutches, but three months later he had discarded even the aid of a cane.

While my case might not seem so wonderful as a great many cases, it means everything to me, for it has given me health, joy, peace, and love for God and man that I had never known before. For several years I was very miserable, taking patent medicine and doing everything I could hear of, growing worse all the time.

I first heard of Christian Science about January 1, 1896, by hearing a person tell of a method of healing which I did not then understand. Having overheard the conversation and hearing him tell of absent treatment, as soon as the conversation was ended, I made further inquiry as to the method employed, etc.