Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science has been my only physician for the past eight years. My first healing, from an internal abscess, was accomplished in ten days.

My attention was first attracted to Christian Science in the early part of 1909 through the almost instantaneous restoration to health and harmony of a very dear friend, who had reached what seemed to the material senses a hopeless state through typhoid and pneumonia. Very soon after witnessing this healing I took up the study of Christian Science in earnest.

God had always seemed a close, living, and loving reality to me, and yet totally unavailable. When a student of Christian Science told me that this Science would help me to know more about God, I felt that my prayer to be shown the way had been answered, and began at once to study the Lesson-Sermons, and to attend the church services and lectures.

Some years ago I had been an invalid for two or three years from an illness known as Meniere's disease, and my life at that time was one of wretchedness and great fear. I had had no relief from the treatment of many doctors and specialists whose advice I had sought.

When I first knew of Christian Science, I was in great need. I had what was called by the doctors a very bad case of blood poisoning.

I was healed of heart trouble through reading the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy What at one time seemed a serious physical problem vanished quickly and completely as the truth of a pure Christianity unfolded. Like many another seeker for Truth, I had begun the study of our textbook as a casual reader rather than as a student, and it was during a period when I had laid aside Science and Health for a time that heart trouble appeared.

In Malachi we read, "Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. " This has literally been my experience in Christian Science, which has been my only physician and guide for many years.

Words are inadequate to express my gratitude for the many healings and blessings I have received in Christian Science. Two years ago, while riding my bicycle, I was run over and suffered concussion of the brain, a broken collar bone, and bruises.

I was not attracted to Christian Science by physical healing; but I have had many proofs of physical healing, as well as help out of many discordant conditions, since taking up the study. I had been a victim of nervous headaches since childhood, and these have vanished.

For years it seemed necessary that I diet, and the diet consisted of hardly enough to sustain me. With sleepless nights and restless days, my endurance was about exhausted when Christian Science came into my life.