Testimonies of Healing

First of all I am grateful to kind friends who were an influence for good in my life even before I knew about Christian Science. I am grateful to remember that my mother loved the Bible and went to it for help, and for her endeavor to teach her children to appreciate the Bible and to pray.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude for Christian Science, and also with a desire to help others, that I give this testimony. In November, 1914, I decided to try Christian Science to see if it could heal, for I felt it would be useless for me to continue medical treatment.

Christian Science , as revealed to us by Mary Baker Eddy, has so changed my whole viewpoint and my way of thinking, and thereby brought such joy, health, peace, and happiness into my life, that I must try to express some of the gratitude which I feel so deeply. My husband, before we were married, had had a wonderful healing of ivy poisoning through the help of a practitioner, but had not taken up the study of Christian Science.

Like many others I can testify to the truth of the statement that ''man's extremity is God's opportunity. " Until the time I was led to take up the study of Christian Science, I had been an active worker in a Protestant church, but I was not receiving the help and comfort that I needed and for which I was searching.

Christian Science has been and is the most vital factor that has come into my life. I gratefully acknowledge that I owe to Christian Science nearly all the good things that are mine, including such priceless blessings as good health, loyal friends, a happy home, inspiring business associations, opportunities to serve others, power to resist and overcome harmful influences, and a religion that has taught me to love the Bible, once a closed book, and has explained to me the truth about God and man.

For all the blessings that have come into our home through the study and application of Christian Science, I desire to express my sincere gratitude. I wish to tell of a healing that came after earnest study was given to a thought given out by one of our Christian Science lecturers.

Of the many blessings I have received in Christian Science since I became a student I wish to mention two which have been a great help to me. One was the healing of rheumatism.

I have had many blessings through Christian Science, both through my own understanding and with the help of loving, faithful practitioners and friends. I had been under the care of doctors all my life, faithfully following their instructions, but continually growing worse.

Over twenty years ago Christian Science came to me in time of great need. I had been sick in bed for many weeks with what the doctors called peritonitis.

My first healing in Christian Science was instantaneous. I had experienced a great sorrow, and life did not seem to be worth living; moreover, my health was in a very bad condition.