Testimonies of Healing

Over twelve years ago Christian Science found me in the depths of despair and mental anguish. Physically I was beyond resuscitation through material means, and mentally I was battling with a problem that was too stupendous for my frail human intellect to understand and cope with.

I WANT to thank Christian Science for all the blessings my family and I have received since knowing of it. At the beginning of this study I was healed of a falling of the stomach which had lasted two years.

Christian Science was brought to me at a time when I was in deep distress; when everything seemed dark and there was little hope of light. I needed help mentally, physically, and financially.

With a heart filled with gratitude, I wish to testify to the great blessings I have received in Christian Science. For nearly a year I suffered from an abdominal complaint and was always under medical treatment.

When I first attended a Christian Science church it was not for physical healing, but rather to encourage a friend who had been given up by the doctors. The beauty of this religion slowly dawned on me, and after several months I decided to seek help from a Christian Science practitioner for a physical disorder to relieve which I had resorted to drugs daily.

Over twelve years ago, after much material aid, including a surgical operation, had failed to help me, I assumed that there was no cure for me on this side of the grave. So I began earnestly searching for God, in whom I believed, but I did not know where to find Him.

Eleven years ago Christian Science healed me of sleeplessness and severe headaches, and transformed me from a discontented semi-invalid into a well, happy, and useful member of society. It seems to me that my life up to that time had been a continual search for happiness and a continual struggle against lack and ill health.

I have great reason to be grateful to Christian Science. Everything good that has come into my life, the peace, happiness, and the wonderful sense of security and protection, has come as the result of understanding what God is,—infinite Mind, divine Principle, Life,—the relation of a loving Father to His child, and our relationship to Him.

Christian Science is proving each day to be the "pearl of great price," and the fulfillment of the promise of Christ Jesus that he would send us a Comforter that would abide with us forever. Christian Science found me when I had lost all faith in God and the world.

In the year 1908, when the doctors pronounced my case fatal and the end seemed at hand, a Christian Scientist came to my father and told him about Christian Science. She asked for permission to send a practitioner to me, and he consented.