Testimonies of Healing

I should like to express my gratitude for the many blessings I have received in the twelve years I have been studying Christian Science. For eighteen years before that time I had been a physical wreck, and many doctors had failed to heal me.

From the beginning of my experience with Christian Science I received much help and encouragement from faithful and loving practitioners, and I wish to relate my first healing. I 'was away from home at the time I became interested in Christian Science, in a low state of health, with scarcely any knowledge of Christian Science except that it claimed to heal the sick.

Christian Science is the greatest blessing that has ever come into my life. It has been a preventive as well as a curative in our home for a number of years.

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science. During the World War I was completely healed of chronic gastritis of long standing, which caused great suffering; and I cannot find words to tell how thankful I am for this wonderful truth.

When I first read testimonies of Christian Science healing and noticed that many testifiers stated they were more grateful for the spiritual uplifting than for the physical healing, I would wonder what they meant. The word "spiritual" did not mean much to me.

Christian Science , as taught by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder, has been my guide and help on numerous occasions for the last eighteen years. Gratitude records many healings, of which the following was outstanding in its quickness.

In gratitude to God, to Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, and to Mary Baker Eddy, I desire to tell of some of the good that has come to me through the study and application of the truths found in the Bible, and elucidated for humanity in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. In the first year of earnest study and endeavor to practice these truths, I was healed of severe headaches, a bad cough, asthma, and constipation of years' standing, calling only once upon a practitioner for help.

In June, 1923, I was very ill, both physically and mentally. The doctors who attended me said that they could do nothing more for me; and I had given up all hope, thinking I had only a short time to live.

That Christian Science heals surgical cases, sets broken bones and dislocations, I know to be a fact. One evening I slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk, injuring an ankle to such an extent that I was unable to walk.

The first mention of Christian Science that I can recall was one of ridicule made by a little group of people ignorant of the subject. The Psalmist says, "Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee;" and this was indeed proved true in my case, for to test the justice of the remarks I promptly purchased a copy of Mrs.