Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

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.

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.

After several years of suffering, and at least two years of serious illness, it became necessary for me to decide between death and Christian Science. July 4, 1898, I was compelled to take my bed with a severe claim of inflammation of the womb and ovaries; afterwards inflammation of the bowels and kidneys.

It is now three years since I was lifted, through Christian Science, from bondage and sorrow to freedom and peace. For fifteen years I had battled with ill-health, showing itself first in a severe form of stomach trouble.

From the first time that I entered a Christian Science church I felt that God was there, but immediately to prove the truth of this teaching did not seem altogether simple, there was so much latent error to be stirred and destroyed. One hot summer day on the Hudson, it seemed to me impossible to sit up and read Science and Health, I felt so very ill, and I quietly retired to my room to rest.

When the light came to me through Christian Science, I was in the darkness of despair; I thought, "Oh! where can rest be found?" After trying many physicians, patent medicines, and everything that mortal thought could suggest, I knew not which way to look. One physician said that I had inflammation of the spleen and left lung; another said I had an abscess on the liver that would have to be operated on; another said that I had an acute attack of indigestion.

A recent accident and demonstration which came to me may be helpful and interesting to others. While in my kitchen, superintending some of my household affairs, I overturned a large panful of boiling water.