Testimonies of Healing

What is healing? This question is fully answered in Science and Health, to all who follow its teachings, in demonstration of the words and works of Jesus Christ. Thereby we learn that "there are really but two modes of practice; one is quackery the other is Science," (S.

" We think we are healed when a disease disappears, though it is liable to reappear. " "No man is healed in sin, or by it, any more than he is morally saved in sin or by it.

My recent experience with impersonal belief of evil, may help some brother or sister struggling to get rid of personal sense: — for, has not our Teacher said that whatever "purifies, sanctifies, and consecrates human life is not an enemy;" that, "the best lesson of their life is gained by crossing swords with temptation, with fear and besetments of evil—insomuch as they thereby have tried their strength and proven it"? Less than a month ago, one Saturday morning, through the careless handling of another, some of the contents of a box of concentrated lye was spilled in my eye. Immediately, in thought, I went up "into the mountain to pray,"; and thus overcame the mortal mind images that came surging over me like a multitude; so that I continued with my household work until finished.

It was three years last May since I first heard of Christian Science. I was at that time a slave to tobacco, and had been subject to sick-headache from a youth, as well as to beliefs of pain from neuralgia.

About twenty months ago, my attention was directed to Science and Health. Being at the time, and having been for years previous, a subject of many beliefs in sin and sickness; and having tried in vain to find help in either orthodoxy (which I had in abundance) or in medicine (which I had tested to the utmost) I eagerly perused its pages and pondered over its meaning.

Two years ago last September, after an illness of five years, I was healed in Christian Science. A great part of that time, I had suffered more than language can tell, not closing my eyes in sleep for three weeks at a time.

Healed at Sunday School. In July, 1889, I learned that Christian Scientists were holding Sabbath school near my home.

We took passage by steamship from Savannah to New York. When we went, the ocean was very smooth, but when we returned, the captain said it was the roughest it had been in two years.

For twenty-two years I had been a sufferer from several diseases; and had tried ten different doctors. None of them could cure me; they could only give me relief for a while, and then the medicine would have no more effect on me.

I had been a sufferer for three years. Tried five physicians in Sioux City, with no relief; then they advised "change of climate," still no relief.