Testimonies of Healing

Often when I have felt the need of rest and comfort the testimonies of healing in the periodicals and in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, have furnished a rich, abiding sense of the joy and gratitude which heal so quickly. Several years ago I was riding alone.

Words cannot express my gratitude for Christian Science and what it has done and is doing in my home; for the wonderful unfoldment of the Bible teachings; also to Mrs. Eddy for her beautiful and clear interpretation of the Bible.

What I deemed for years unjust persecution, indignities of dishonesty and disloyalty, also rigid bondage to person and place,—thoughts which resulted in bodily suffering,—proved indeed to be angels entertained unawares; for while I was earnestly praying to our Father one evening, while prostrate in suffering, there came to my consciousness the soft-winged dove of peace, as if to assure me that there was a God watching over me, that He heard my cry, and that divine help was near. Very soon a friend presented me with a very old edition of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

Profound and sincere gratitude prompts me to write this testimony of a most wonderful and beautiful proof of the power of Truth. From earliest childhood I suffered from an internal trouble, which grew worse from year to year, until at last paralysis of the bowels set in.

It was in the year 1906 that I first became interested in Christian Science through a dear sister's healing of nervous prostration. For a long time I was unwilling to quit my reliance on medicine, and one day I told a practitioner that I was ashamed of my lack of faith in God to heal me without material remedies.

Among the many ills of which I have been healed in Christian Science are chronic constipation of an unusually stubborn nature, colds, influenza, an infected thumb, a sprained ankle, and a sprained neck; also, hatred of what I was pleased to term "religious hypocrisy," a failing I attached especially to various Christian Scientists. I am now, and have been for several years, busily engaged in trying to overcome my own erroneous thoughts; an effort which I find much more profitable both to myself and to others.

I desire to express my deep gratitude for all the demonstrations we have had through the help of Christian Science. During these last years we have had numerous proofs of the power of Truth, as taught and demonstrated by this Science.

One afternoon, about eleven years ago, I entered a Christian Science Reading Room and asked the librarian to tell me something about Christian Science. She very lovingly directed me to a practitioner; and, rather indifferently, I went to his office and repeated my question, thinking at this juncture that perhaps I might be relieved of the physical suffering which I was experiencing.

That Christian Science heals disease and faults of character and satisfies our desires for a real understanding of Life, I have had ample proof in the last nineteen years. I am strong and well, and have been healed of the need for glasses and of deafness.

As Christian Science has been my only physician for the past twelve years, I wish to give my testimony. Christian Science has met all my needs, but there is one healing which stands out as a beacon, and which I wish to relate.