With heartfelt gratitude I wish to give my testimony to the many blessings and healings which I have received through the study and application of Christian Science.
My first healing was that of a serious nervous condition, caused by fear and worry. This condition pulled me down to a dangerous mental temper, which did not respond to medical aid. I took all kinds of nerve tonics and was sent to three different hospitals. The last one was a state hospital. Here I received treatment for the grave mental state that had claimed me. The doctors there declared my case incurable. Nothing appeared to help me, and I fell into a very weak condition physically and mentally. At this time the only food I could take was given to me through a feeding tube. A friend of my father's, knowing that pity and sorrow were burdening my mother, and seeing the effect this trouble was having upon her, asked them to try Christian Science. Soon after this, with constant treatment by a practitioner, I was brought home. I had been fully relieved of the serious mental strain. As soon as I was able to read the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, a longing came over me to attend church services. I was then quite lovingly taken to church regularly. During one of these services a great beam of light fell upon me. To me it was a divine revelation, the spirit of Christ healing me. I had found the truth.
Ah, the love and truth that were revealed through this wondrous spiritual light! This was indeed the proof of God's ever-presence and His loving care. Through the faithful work of the practitioner I had found the light of Christian Science as real and eternal and the only power that heals. On seeing this miracle, I suddenly began singing from the Hymnal for the first time. I then realized my freedom from bondage; the truth had made me free. My healing was complete. I feel and know that this great ordeal I passed through opened my eyes to a brighter light, and that each new trial and healing gives me a stronger and more enduring knowledge of the infinite.
