Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

My gratitude to God for what Christian Science has done for me comes from my heart. For years I suffered from very painful gallstone colic, and later on from a serious liver complaint.

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.

" Freely ye have received, freely give. " This Scriptural text impels me to bear witness to the healing truth that came to me at a time of great need some years ago, when a physician told me I must submit to an operation for inflamed, poisoned, and diseased organs that had troubled me for a year.

In the fall of 1919, I was taken seriously ill with influenza. After having medical treatment I became worse, and my mother, who was very much alarmed, wrote to a relative who was a Christian Scientist and asked for Science treatment for me.

Christian Science was first brought to me at a time of great trouble. After a distressing illness my husband passed on, and about ten months later the war started, threatening to deprive me of my sons.

It has been proved to me many times that a right understanding of Christian Science heals sickness, sorrow, and sin. I am very grateful for a recent proof of this.

About eleven years ago I heard of Christian Science, and although there was a great deal in it that I did not understand, still there were many things that gave me satisfactory answers to my questions. When I entered the army I despised the "duty" of religious exercises and religious teaching, and only to please my mother did I become a member of a Protestant church.