Testimonies of Healing
It is with profound gratitude for a healing of a sprained ankle that I give this testimony. During the cold, stormy days of February, 1926, I was spending a day in one of our suburbs, and while out walking snow began to fall, covering the icy remains of a previous snowstorm.
It is about three years since I first took up the study of Mrs. Eddy's textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in conjunction with the Bible, which before had been a closed book to me; and I am very glad to have the privilege of testifying that through the understanding gained in Christian Science I have had many healings, both physical and mental.
About five years ago I was healed of chronic bronchitis through Christian Science. I had been the victim of this disease for about nine years.
When first I read some Christian Science literature sent me by a friend, I felt it was too good to be true. But when, a few months later, I began to study "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and to attend the services, I soon changed my thought and began to see that there is nothing too good to be true, since God, good, only is true.
A feeling of deep gratitude prompts me to give a testimony telling of the great blessings I have received in Christian Science. I have enjoyed reading The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel, and the testimonies in them have encouraged me to search the Scriptures, and to learn of God and His spiritual ideas, which are a wonderful comfort to me.
Over four years ago I turned to Christian Science for help, after being told by the doctors that my boy could not live six months without another operation, and that even then he had but one chance in a hundred. At the age of three years the doctors had said he had tuberculosis of the hip bone.
During all my life our family had been subject to all sorts of ills, such as colds, tonsillitis, grippe, fevers, malaria, typhoid, quinsy, severe headaches, liver trouble, and many other ailments. A neighbor once said he thought we hired the doctor by the year, he came so often and so regularly! In 1919, when I first knew of Christian Science, I had been a medical nurse for a number of years and was filled with great fear regarding what the future held in store for me.
Several years ago I witnessed a friend's healing of influenza simply through her reading of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. She seemed so ill, yet steadfastly refused medical aid, and I became quite indignant with her, even asking her husband why he did not call a doctor.
In 1913 I was suffering from a nervous breakdown which culminated in epileptic fits. A dear friend told me of Christian Science when I was in despair and felt I should never regain health.
At the age of fourteen, when apparently a healthy youngster, I awoke one morning with an uncomfortable mist over my left eye. Later that day, upon closing my right eye, I noticed that I had completely lost the vision of the left and could detect nothing, save the sense of a moving object passing in front of me.