Testimonies of Healing

It is with a heart full of gratitude that I should like to express my thanks for what Christian Science has done for me, and is doing for all of us. To know that God fills all space and is a very present help at all times and in all things, has been a great comfort to me.

In 1920 I was healed in Christian Science of tuberculosis of the lungs. According to the doctor's diagnosis and an X-ray photograph it seemed certain that this disease would end fatally, but instead I was healed in a surprisingly short time.

I did not come into Christian Science for physical healing but for a better understanding of God, although my first healing came almost at once. The doctors and specialists had doomed me to wear glasses always, as they claimed I was born with bad eyes and must carry two pairs of glasses with me.

It seems to me that I must express my gratitude for what the knowledge of Christian Science has helped me to demonstrate. Several years ago, when teaching in a town where there were no other Scientists, I got up in the night to go to another room, thinking that I knew the way without a light; instead, I plunged headfirst down the back stairs, landing on my head and left shoulder.

It is with a heart overflowing with gratitude to our loving Father-Mother God, to Mrs. Eddy, and to the loving ones whom I have met since coming into Christian Science, and who have been such a help to me, that I write this testimony.

Through the sincere desire of a member of my family who had turned to Christian Science for physical healing, I consented to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, though for many years I had entertained an ignorantly critical opinion of it. To my amazement, I found my prejudice being dispelled, and soon realized that my former concept of Christian Science had been entirely erroneous.

In 1907, I turned to Christian Science for the first time, to seek help for our eldest daughter; and after a very few weeks of treatment this little seven-year-old girl was healed of a long-standing stomach trouble which several doctors had tried in vain to cure. The healing, which has been permanent, awakened in me and in the members of my family a great interest in the teaching which gives so much hope of health and harmony to suffering mankind.

For more than eight years the fruits of the study of Christian Science have benefited me. Our family were members of evangelical churches, and we lived according to our faith and knowledge of their teaching, but the fear of evil as being more powerful than good and lack of understanding of Christ, Truth, caused us to suffer the effects of these false beliefs.

I wish to express my sincere gratitude for a wonderful proof of the healing power of Christian Science. Our small daughter was taken seriously ill, and it seemed imperative to send for her father at once.

In 1926 my small boy in running along a highly polished corridor tripped and fell, twisting his leg, spraining his ankle, badly tearing the ligaments, and turning over his foot so that it hung helpless. His knee was very much drawn up.