Testimonies of Healing

The year of the World's Fair I met with a very painful accident at the Art Institute, spraining my ankle, and being bruised in several places. Christian Science healed me so that within two weeks I was out at the Fair, walking around for hours, and with no discomfort whatever from my ankle.

Three years ago, when going through mental and financial distress, I happened upon Christian Science, and while I had been brought up in the Jewish faith I found that it was not an ever-present help in time of trouble and need. I took Christian Science treatment and began to read the literature, and soon to attend services.

I was born of Quaker parentage, and taught to speak when the Spirit moved me. Surely the Spirit of the Lord is upon me at this moment, to tell to all the world what the teaching of Christian Science is doing for me.

A stanza in our Hymnal,— For we must share if we would keep That blessing from above: Ceasing to give we cease to have, Such is the law of love, reminds me that I have not shared the benefits I have received from Christian Science, and that, "It is more blessed to give than to receive. " Last July I was stricken down with a violent case of typhoid fever.

Six years ago I was healed of a severe stomach trouble, which I had tried in vain for two years to get relief from through medicine. Three years later, through the study of the Bible Lessons as given in the Quarterly, it began to dawn on my consciousness that Christian Science is the religion of Jesus Christ; and that it can be proved by its works.

I would like to give a demonstration I made, that it may help and encourage others in the great work. I was working for a store as errand boy and was going on an errand when I jumped on a milk wagon for a ride, but in getting off both feet slipped and went under the wheels of the wagon, but I got up.

Some years ago Christian Science was suggested to myself and husband by dear friends who knew by experience that the Truth would free us from the bondage to materia medica, and heal our claims of sickness in its many types and forms; but we were not ready till financial difficulties came and we were convinced that we must trust in God to remove the almost hopeless despair which seemed to envelop us. We thank God the Truth, as taught in Science and Health, has enabled us to overcome physical claims and to find that divine Love will meet our daily need.

In January, 1895, the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" was brought to me so forcibly, by means of a friend being remarkably healed, that I went at it to study its contents as if my life depended upon it. It shows us how to read the Bible with new meaning, it gives us larger and broader ideas, and it shows God, the one Mind, to be the only real Life, Truth, Love, Intelligence, and Substance.

For eight years I was a great sufferer. My troubles were many: tumors, kidney and bladder troubles, bloating of the limbs and the entire body, severe headaches, and bronchial trouble.

I was burdened with constipation for twenty-six years. It was in every way disastrous to me except that it at last brought me to a knowledge of Christian Science.