Testimonies of Healing
It is indeed a blessed privilege to be able to express my sincere gratitude for Christian Science through the periodicals our Leader provided. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a loyal branch church.
Christian Science has unfolded in my consciousness the law of active right thinking, and in faithfully applying this law I have been able to glorify God's name in many demonstrations. Through humble prayer, and through searching the Scriptures and faithfully studying our dear Leader's writings, I have seen many evils disappear: nervousness, constipation, insect bites, warts, toothache, rupture, measles, influenza, tobacco smoking, burns, financial lack, self-pity, and hatred have all been healed.
I was brought up in a Christian home, attended an orthodox church, and was an earnest church worker, but there was always a feeling of unrest, a longing for something that would bring peace. From a child I was not well, lack of strength and fatigue being two of the things which made life unsatisfactory.
In loving gratitude to the Giver of all good, I should like to mention some of the many beautiful healings that have come to me through the understanding of Christian Science. Having grown up in a very strict orthodox home, I tried to establish my own home on the same ecclesiastical lines, with the result of untold suffering from various diseases.
Through a friend I took up the study of Christian Science about twelve years ago for a physical healing. I felt that I was perfectly satisfied with my own church, but if Christian Science could heal me I should be very grateful and go on my way rejoicing.
It was about eight years ago that I turned to Christian Science. While making a short journey I met a woman who told me something about this Science.
Words seem inadequate to express the deep gratitude I feel towards Christian Science for the many blessings I have received since I turned to this wonderful truth, which indeed sets men free. I have been instantaneously healed of a floating kidney after being told by three medical doctors that an operation was the only means of relief.
For nineteen years I have earnestly endeavored to demonstrate what Job meant when he said, "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace;" and in proportion to my obedience to the understanding of God which has unfolded to me, I have found that peace which passes understanding, and which the world can neither give nor take away. Many trials and difficulties have beset me on the way, but these have only served to make me seek more earnestly a still closer acquaintance with God, and to know and live the truth which Jesus said would make us free.
Filled with great joy and gratitude, I am writing this testimony in order to give, perhaps, to someone hopelessly sick, as I was, courage and confidence. In February, 1924, I was taken seriously ill.
It had been my earnest desire for years to overcome the many discords that manifested themselves from early childhood, but try as hard as I might I was unable to overcome them until I began the study of Christian Science. About five years ago I was advised by a loving Christian Science friend to purchase the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.