Testimonies of Healing

It is with a heart overflowing with thanks to God and gratitude to our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, that I give this testimony. I had been in a deplorable condition for ten years and had been given up by more than fifty doctors, surgeons, and specialists.

I am grateful for Christian Science because I have found it not only a practical, but a satisfying religion; a religion that shows us how to work out our own salvation, or in other words to understand our true relationship to God and to see man as God made him—perfect, harmonious; a religion that when rightfully put into practice solves and adjusts our every need, physical, moral, mental. On page 192 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs.

About seven years ago I came into Christian Science for a healing of hay fever, with which I had been troubled for fourteen years, never sleeping from eleven o'clock at night until four in the morning. I was divinely led to ask a practitioner for help.

I heard of Christian Science for the first time in 1914, and was healed in three treatments of a very serious complaint. Before I knew of Christian Science I had consulted several doctors; but they did not express themselves frankly, and only told me that the glands of my neck were swollen.

I wish to express my gratitude for blessings received through Christian Science. Thirty-five years ago I had an attack of grippe from which I did not at that time recover fully.

In 1918 I was suffering from a nervous breakdown. I weighed ninety-seven pounds, and had gradually settled into a state of depression from which nerve specialists, relatives, and friends seemed unable to arouse me.

"One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. " This verse from Psalms arouses in one an intense feeling of gratitude for the countless blessings Christian Science has brought, and a keen desire to declare for the benefit of others some of these "mighty acts.

I did not at first take up Christian Science for healing, but for the help it would give me in understanding the Bible; however, from the first knowledge I gained of the truth, I have been able to depend on it for the overcoming of every discord, and have always experienced healing. Our three children, aged nineteen, sixteen, and fourteen years, have known nothing but this Science, and are learning to use their knowledge of the truth at all times.

Christian Science was first presented to me by a friend over six years ago, when I was in much distress. I could not bear my weight on my left foot; in fact, for a year I could not step without severe pain in one side.

Before I knew anything of Christian Science I was suffering from nervous prostration, and had been for seven years. Will-power enabled me to drag wearily through my daily duties, unhappy and discontented.