Testimonies of Healing

Over twenty-two years ago I turned to Christian Science as a last resort for physical healing. Having been left a motherless and delicate babe, I struggled through childhood, girlhood, and young womanhood with a sense of weakness and limitation, and was frequently under medical treatment.

After studying Christian Science for about four years I became careless and neglected my study for some time. Then, about three years ago, I was taken with a severe case of pleurisy of the lungs, tonsillitis in a bad form, earache, and constipation.

I am very grateful that I can lift my voice in thanksgiving and praise to God for Christian Science. For eighteen years I have been the constant beneficiary of its benevolent healing influence on my life.

I cannot praise God enough for bringing me into Christian Science, through which I was saved from an operation to which I was about to submit, even though doctors thought I might be too weak to undergo it. An experience for which I can never be sufficiently grateful was a healing I had of erysipelas in August, 1925.

It is a privilege to tell of the healing truth of Christian Science. Nineteen years ago I was healed of a malignant growth, and it has been a permanent healing.

It was in 1914 when, with a heart full of prejudice against what I believed Christian Science to be, I went to make my home among those who were striving to live according to its light. Two and a half years later my grandfather came to visit us.

In 1926 about Easter time I was reading the bills on an advertising pillar when an invitation to a Christian Science lecture caught my attention. This was something new to me, and I at once decided to attend the lecture, which was to be given by a member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts.

I am most grateful for Christian Science, which was first presented to me about fifteen years ago, when I was greatly in need of physical healing. I seemed to be on the verge of a nervous collapse, suffering with insomnia, for which I had been taking sleeping powders for a number of years.

Among the joys it is possible to experience there is one of which we never grow weary—that of thanking God for all His goodness. We are told on page 567 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy that "Truth and Love come nearer in the hour of woe.

Christian Science was presented to me about fifteen years ago, when I seemed to be standing in "the valley of the shadow" with all faith in materia medica gone. I had been a semi-invalid all my life, having had many diseases, so that I grew to have much more belief in sickness than in health.