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I rejoice that I can testify to...

From the March 1913 issue of The Christian Science Journal


I rejoice that I can testify to Christian Science healing, physically and spiritually. As I look back and recall my condition when Christian Science took me up, I am at a loss as to just what to tell about. When I sought Christ in the old thought I was taught and directed in such a way that I felt I never could reach him, that I could never exercise enough faith to rely upon the promises which were made to his followers. I did not realize this lack, however, until sorrow and sickness well-nigh overwhelmed me.

Over three years ago I was injured seriously in a cyclone, and I did not walk for three months thereafter. The physician who attended me told me it was better than he expected, that I should even live; but after a long time I could walk, and without limping, and seemingly was fully recovered. My nervous system had, however, been wrecked, and heart, stomach, and liver trouble set in. For several years I was under treatment from three different physicians, but would be benefited only a few weeks at a time, and this kept on until I was almost worn out with suffering. I then began to realize that unless there was a change, my days were few. That was a bitter time to me, for I did not want to die. How I prayed and wept and suffered!

At this time I had a next-door neighbor who invariably reached me before my physician when I had a bad attack. She came to see me one morning when I was alone, excepting for my cook, my husband being away at his business and my only child at school. I was so ill that I felt I might never again see them. It was a bitter moment to me, and I said as much to this friend. To my surprise she said that there was no need for me to suffer in this way; that there was a remedy. This was said with so much love and assurance that I was impressed. She had talked to me before, and I had not been interested; but this time I listened as she talked on, and when she left I had decided to have Christian Science treatment. I knew nothing of the teaching, but I had a great admiration for the lovable woman who had told me of it, and did not doubt her word when she related her own experience.

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