Testimonies of Healing

Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. " I am very happy to have proved that the truth frees from the bondage of material law.

In the year 1900 I left my native state and friends and went to reside in the Rockies, my chief desire being to find health and greater peace of mind. Many years had been spent in searching for relief from extreme headaches, throat trouble, and general debility.

The great peace, which comes in some measure to all who love Christian Science and strive to understand and live it, has come to me, and I am indeed a grateful witness to its healing and redeeming power. Many years ago, at a time when I seemed with "no hope, and without God in the world," and when medical science, which I had employed almost constantly for several years, gave me no hope of relief from several supposedly incurable diseases, Christian Science was presented to me by a friend who had been healed by it of almost total blindness.

With profound gratitude to and reverence for our dear Father-Mother God, and with gratitude also to our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, and our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy, I submit this testimony, sincerely trusting it may help some friend along the road from sense to Soul.

Not because the physical is by any means the most important do I stress it, for it cannot compare with the peace that comes through practice of the teachings of Christian Science, or with the realization of the truth which heals our supposed ills, and which makes us truly happy. Nothing can compare with the spiritual peace which Christian Science brings.

Each time I receive a new Journal or Sentinel , I turn first to the testimonies of healing. Several times the reading of these has benefited me in the overcoming of some difficulty which at the moment was harassing me.

I became interested in Christian Science soon after my wife started to study it. I had to admit that Christian Science was doing her good, though I qualified the admission with the thought that religion was a good thing for women but was not meant for men.

For a number of years I sought healing in Christian Science for various physical ailments, with slight success, and like many, whom I have heard make the remark after a similar experience, I thought it was "not for me," however much others might have benefited. Material means had all been exhausted before I turned to Science, which I thought was only some method of healing to replace medical treatment.

My son was seriously ill with what doctors called tuberculosis. They told me he could not get well; and, indeed, gave him only two days to live.

I write this testimony with love to God and gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. In the winter of 1927 I was taken with a severe cold, which developed into pneumonia.