Testimonies of Healing
Before I took up the study of Christian Science the Bible was to me an incomprehensible book. I had begun to read it at different times, but had soon put it away again.
Sixteen years ago I was healed instantaneously, through an absent treatment in Christian Science, of back trouble which was so severe that I could not walk without experiencing pain. I knew that a wonderful change had come over me, and my next step was to find out how the healing had been accomplished.
Being desirous of helping my fellow-men, I am happy to bear testimony to the blessings I have received since knowing of Christian Science. First, I shall tell of a healing of defective sight, which medical science had declared incurable.
Christian Science has meant so much to me ever since I was a child that I find words inadequate to express my gratitude. Our first contact with Christian Science came through the healing of my mother of a very severe form of eczema.
Ten years ago, when I was suffering from a great grief caused by the passing on of a loved one, and had reached the stage where I had lost all faith in God and His willingness to answer prayer, a neighbor said to me, "I have the Christian Science textbook; would you like to read it?" As I said I would, she brought it to me. I started to read, and had been doing so only a short time, about two hours, when a great joy flooded my consciousness as I realized that what this book said was true.
About five years ago I was well and able to attend daily to my business. I was living at that time, as I thought, a good Christian life, when I suddenly was laid low with paralysis.
It is now over four years since Christian Science found me. I was at that time a very weary woman, suffering from rheumatoid arthritis; and although under the care of two doctors, I gradually grew worse.
When I first heard of Christian Science I was living in Denver, Colorado. I bought the book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, because some very kind ladies I knew in my business possessed and read "the little book," and I felt I wanted good and popular books in my home, especially for a nephew I was rearing.
When Christian Science was first brought to my attention, I was a confirmed scoffer at the laws inculcated by this wonderful boon to humanity. I could easily believe anything told me that was derogatory to its teachings.
Christian Science has so entirely changed my life in the thirteen years I have been studying it that it seems almost impossible to find words to express all that it means to me. In July, 1915, after being ill for nearly a year, I was told by our family physician and a specialist to whom he sent me that I had lung and heart trouble, and that there was little or no hope of recovery.