Testimonies of Healing
I take great comfort in reading SCIENCE AND HEALTH, and will cling firmly to the light I have, knowing more will be given me. While in Salt Lake City I met a lady at the hotel who had been an invalid all her life.
Before I was healed of many infirmities, of twenty years standing, my eyesight began to fail me, in belief. I have been able to demonstrate over this seeming, in a great degree.
A friend called one day with her arm in bandages, and in a sling. She began to tell of the accident that caused a dislocated wrist.
I received a telegram from a city eighty-five miles distant, containing these two words, "Come to-morrow. " I knew not who had a belief, or what the belief was, but this I did know that "God is All, and there is none beside Him.
A gentleman, — a travelling salesman from one of our large cities,— with whom Christian Science is the main topic of conversation, when not engaged in selling goods, being on quite intimate terms with one of his customers in a small town, introduced the subject of Christian Science, endeavoring to give him some idea of what it is; giving as proof some cases of healing; not knowing, at that time, that the merchant had an invalid son and daughter, and a friend with an invalid wife. The subject was entirely new to him.
As an illustration of how "bread cast upon the waters" is found "after many days," I wish to relate the following Mrs. —— was called to a lady very much in need of Christian Science.
For five years my daughter was an invalid. The physicians said the cause was an overtaxed brain, which would lead to spinal trouble.
Two years ago I was working for a lady who talked to me about Christian Science. I had never heard of it before.
I have been a great sufferer for many years, and about thirteen months ago my physician told me my case was hopeless. Early last spring I gave up all hope of a cure.
Words fail to express what Christian Science has done for me. I was an invalid from childhood, and a great sufferer.