Testimonies of Healing
Although I did not come into Christian Science for physical healing, it is with deep gratitude that I testify to the efficacy of Christian Science to heal physically, mentally, and financially. It has been our only help since 1913.
Looking back to the years before I knew of Christian Science, and comparing them with the ten or twelve years that have succeeded them, during which the study and application of this Science have brought to me a liberation, activity, and happiness undreamed of before, I can say with the Psalmist that God has "brought me up .
During the year 1911 I was a very discouraged, sickly woman, having suffered for nearly a year. I had been taking various treatments, but was not healed.
I was on the stage for many years, and from childhood had been afflicted with constipation. Each day I was obliged to use material remedies, and in almost every city where I appeared I consulted the best doctors, but without results.
In February, 1919, when thirteen years old, I returned home from school one day quite exhausted and lay down and went to sleep. When I awoke my right leg pained me, and I could not move it at all.
I became interested in Christian Science about eleven years ago, and at that time I was sick and discouraged, without hope of ever regaining my health. I had tried everything suggested by physicians, had submitted to a surgical operation, and was no better.
It is my desire to bring before the public what Christian Science has meant to me for the last eighteen years. When it was presented to me I was quite young, having had very little experience.
My attention was first called to Christian Science in 1905, at which time I attended my first Wednesday evening testimony meeting. The only testimony of that evening which I recall was of the healing of cancer, given in a simple, sincere manner which left no doubt as to its truthfulness.
Christian Science has been our only physician for over twenty years. In that time we have had many demonstrations.
I became interested in Christian Science through the healing of a near relative, which brought the entire family into Christian Science. For this I am truly grateful.