Testimonies of Healing

I am a carpenter. Thirty-two years ago, at the age of seventeen, a heavy ladder fell on my knee, straining the kneecap.

My first healing in Christian Science came while reading the Lesson-sermons to a lady. The healing was of what is known as granulated eyelids, a condition that had persisted from childhood.

In humility and with deep gratitude I express thanks for the gift of Christian Science to me. The many years of intellectual study and preparation for life's work count as nothing in comparison to the gleam of understanding of real Life as revealed in Christian Science.

It is with joy and a heart filled with gratitude that I wish to express my thankfulness for all the good received from Christian Science. This great truth was taught me when I was apparently in "the valley of the shadow of death.

After being for five years under the treatment of different physicians, who were only able to give me temporary relief, and that through the administration of morphine hypodermically, I came to California in 1917 to visit my son before he sailed for Europe to participate in the world war. I was supposed to return to the Middle West within three months, to undergo a serious abdominal operation.

I am glad to tell of a wonderful experience, a proof of God's protection, on a journey from Sweden to England by air. We started from Malmo in the morning, three Christian Scientists together, in an aeroplane for ten persons, via Hamburg and Amsterdam to Croydon near London, and the journey was expected to take eleven hours.

I was always considered to have a delicate constitution, subject to many ills. When twelve years of age, I contracted an illness which left me with abscesses of the ear.

When I first took up the study of Christian Science I was in a very bad way, both physically and mentally; but I at once began to have hope, and was healed within a short time of constipation, salt rheum, and a skin disease of many years' standing. This was over eighteen years ago; and these healings have been permanent.

Inexpressible gratitude binds me to Christian Science and to its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy. During many years of suffering I went astray and was near despair.

I had been baptized in a church when I was quite young, had been active in church work when only a child, and believed in the Bible with all my heart, but was not at all satisfied with the way the church I belonged to practiced Christianity. I felt as if I must progress; but I did not know of Christian Science, which is indeed progressive Christianity, until a dear sister told me of it at a time when I most needed it.