Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science has been my only physician for over eight years. When I found this truth I was sick both mentally and physically.

It is with a deep sense of humility that I express my gratitude for Christian Science. I was never considered a very strong child, and as time went on and I grew to womanhood my health began to fail.

I wish to express my thanks for Christian Science. I am grateful beyond words for the truth which it teaches, and can never sufficiently thank the teacher and the practitioners who have so lovingly and patiently helped me to know this truth.

For twenty-one years I suffered from gallstone cramp, sciatica, and rheumatism; so that for weeks I was confined to my bed, suffering intense pain. To this, some years later, was added asthma, which became so aggravated that I could hardly move about even on level ground.

A few years ago, while living in the home of a Christian Scientist, I received a telegram from a friend of my parents which read, "Come, your father and mother seriously ill. " Intense fear immediately overwhelmed me, but as I packed my bag I knew that I must overcome that fear in order to be of service when I reached home, about one hundred miles away.

Christian Science has been my constant help for the past eleven years. There is nothing for which I am more grateful, as it has proved to be a practical religion, not only healing my physical ailments but solving each problem as it presents itself.

I did not come into Christian Science for physical healing: in my case it was the sweet reasonableness, the flawless logic, of this new presentation of the old truth which made a strong appeal. I had been carefully taught in religious matters, and was, nominally, a member of an orthodox church, but found no satisfaction in religion, because there were so many things left unexplained.

Christian Science found me in what is referred to as "man's extremity. " After an illness of six months, seven weeks of which were spent in a hospital under the care of a specialist, it was decided that I should be operated upon.

With the hope that my experience may be helpful, I am gladly sending my testimony. As the result of a so-called law of heredity, my mother having passed on with the disease, I had suffered many months from lung trouble.

Before I became interested in Christian Science, at the age of twenty-one, I had all my life been a victim of asthma, from which I never expected to get relief. When invited to attend a Christian Science testimony meeting I accepted, with the thought that I might be entertained; but I did not dream that I would become seriously interested.