Testimonies of Healing
It is impossible for me to express in words my gratitude for Christian Science, through the study of which I am learning the truth about God and about man as His perfect reflection. In 1917, while teaching in the Cleveland, Ohio, public schools, after five months' treatment by a physician I was told that I must spend the remainder of my days in California or Arizona because of what he diagnosed as tuberculosis.
The desire to acknowledge some of the many benefits received through Christian Science, and to do all in my power to show my gratitude, is the reason for this testimony. The truth came to me at a time of great need and, it seemed, in a remarkable way.
It is ten years since I first began to grasp the truth as revealed in Christian Science. My steps have seemed slow, but when I look back the change seems wonderful.
Several times I have tried to account for the genuine interest which I felt upon hearing from a new acquaintance something about the teachings of Christian Science for the first time. It was not merely his assertion that Christian Science could heal all manner of sickness and sin that enlisted my favor from the very beginning.
In her book "Rudimental Divine Science" ( p. 2 ) our Leader, Mrs.
It is with deep gratitude for the blessings which I have received as the result of the study and application of Christian Science that I tell of the following demonstration. Some time ago I was taken ill, and after a few days a large swelling appeared on my cheek.
While I was taking a bath late one cold night an electric heater was in use, being stationed on a high hamper at the end of the tub. Thinking that the heater was not receiving current, I reached out while sitting in the tub of water and put my hand on the electric coil in the center of the heater.
In the winter of 1917 I went to a Christian Science Wednesday evening testimony meeting out of curiosity. The Bible and our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, were both strangers to me then.
" Awake thou that sleepest" was spoken to me when I was ill with nervous prostration, lying as though drugged; and I was raised up almost instantly. I was healed of what a doctor said was bronchitis in its worst form.
I am truly grateful to God and to our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for our beautiful religion. I am grateful for the understanding our practitioners have of God, so that they can help those who seek the truth.