Testimonies of Healing

Eight years ago I was in an invalid chair, refusing to have an operation which a specialist said was quite necessary if I wanted to walk without difficulty. This specialist was consulted because he was opposed to operations in general, and we were hoping that his verdict would be different from that of other doctors.

Twenty-One years ago I began the study of Christian Science, not because I desired to adopt its teachings, but because I had made the acquaintance of one of its students and wished to prove to her that it was fallacious. I bought a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, thinking that were I familiar with it I could convince her that it was full of flaws.

I am indeed grateful for the many blessings Christian Science has brought me, and is bringing me every day. It is over nine years since I was healed of a so-called incurable disease for which I had been operated upon nine times, with no permanent improvement.

I have indeed much to be grateful for. Christian Science has given me a healthy, happy viewpoint, courage to meet the many situations that arise in contact with the world in professional life, and harmonious living conditions in a happy and contented home experience.

I had been delicate from childhood, having had catarrh of the head, throat, and bronchial tubes, and also liver complaint. I was seldom without some kind of cold.

I wish to express my deep gratitude for a wonderful healing which I experienced in Christian Science about six years ago of a very irritating cough accompanied by haemoptysis. Our family physician said he was unable to help further, but that someone else might be able to do so.

Each day brings deeper gratitude that I am living in the age of Christian Science. I first became interested in it over twelve years ago through the healing of my mother.

Twenty-nine years ago I was sick and discouraged. Doctors of different schools were unable to help me out of what they pronounced the last stages of Bright's disease.

The light of Christian Science came into our home at a time when the shadows seemed very dark. Our little daughter had been very ill for many weeks with tuberculosis, and one morning the kindly physician who had been attending her told me that he could no longer give me any hope; that the end was very near, and there was nothing more he could do.

Among so many I too cannot refrain from expressing my gratitude for the wonderful experiences which I, as well as my wife and child, have had in Christian Science. As a consequence of the war, in which I did active service, I suffered from pains in the right side of my chest.