Testimonies of Healing

After many postponements, I feel that I must pay a just debt of gratitude to Christian Science, though I also feel that this debt is most difficult to repay even in part. Perhaps the best way this obligation may be partially fulfilled is through an acknowledgment of the lessons learned.

Christian Science was presented to me by a dear friend when I expressed my dread of a journey because of a condition I had experienced several times. She brought me a Christian Science Sentinel and said, "If you will read this, I am sure you will not be sick.

I am sincerely grateful for all the good that has come to me through the study and application of the teachings about God and man's relationship to Him found in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. For the past ten years Christian Science has been my only physician, and during that time I have experienced many beautiful proofs of God's healing and protecting power.

For a long time I have wished to give a written expression of my deep gratitude for all the blessings that have come to me through the teachings of Christian Science. I was first impressed by hearing of a lady who had been raised up from years of paralysis by Christian Science.

It is with sincerest gratitude to God, and to Mary Baker Eddy, our dear Leader, that I give this testimony. Some eight years ago, after going through three days of diagnosis, I was told I had ulcers of the stomach and intestines, gall-bladder and heart trouble, and several complications, and that it would be necessary for me to remain in the hospital for treatment.

In 1914 one of the leading physicians of New York state told me that a trip to another climate would perhaps be of some help to me; so I started for California with plenty of luggage, mostly mental, which included belief in a complication of rheumatic infections of eight years' standing, catarrh of the stomach, severe eye trouble, fallen arches, and other ailments. One year later I returned, none the better for my trip, and it was then that I was entirely healed through the application of Christian Science.

It is with a grateful heart that I write this testimony. My first healing took place a number of years ago.

My gratitude for Christian Science and for our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, is unbounded and is my reason for giving this testimony. Christian Science has met my every need for more than thirteen years, and I know it will continue to do so as long as it is rightly applied.

With all my heart I rejoice in this opportunity of thanking God most deeply. I am so overwhelmed by my wonderful healing that it is not easy for me to express my boundless thanks in words.

In the beginning of the year 1916 I had reached, so it seemed to me, the limit of discontent. An acquaintance, knowing of this, recommended that I read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.