Testimonies of Healing

I had always been a delicate child. From infancy the thought that I was not strong and could not live long was held over me.

In the spring of 1918, just to please a friend I borrowed a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I had read it about half through, and thought I had caught the author's meaning, when my little girl broke her arm.

About five years ago Christian Science was introduced to me by a friend who had been healed by it. At that time I was in dire distress, mentally and physically, having been for many months tortured by a nervous breakdown.

That Christian Science does heal I am sure; and not only does it heal, but when understandingly applied it also prevents erroneous thought from manifesting itself outwardly. A statement made by a Christian Science lecturer, which is always with me, is so clear, that every case of sickness healed by Christian Science lessens somewhat the whole world's fear of death.

I have been attending the Christian Science Sunday School for twelve years, and have had many proofs of God's allness. I wish to tell of a recent healing, in the hope that it will help others.

I was healed of astigmatism through reading the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. With the loving, patient help of practitioners when necessary, many diseases have been healed.

Just five years ago, while on board a lake steamer, I fell down a flight of brass-bound stairs, which resulted in spinal and other internal injuries. As I had spent the greater part of five years in and out of hospitals and had had two serious abdominal operations, when this accident took place my fear of a doctor's diagnosis was so great that I refused to have medical attention, insisting that I wanted to die as I was.

With a grateful heart I wish to testify to the blessings I have received in Christian Science. My second oldest daughter had suffered since early childhood from a throat trouble which caused her a great deal of discomfort.

It is about four years since I was seized with a very severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism while on holiday on the coast. I was advised to try various remedies as a relief; but nothing did me any good, and my sufferings were "dreadful.

It is with deep and sincere gratitude for the many blessings I have received through the study of Christian Science that I send this testimony. Many diseases have been healed, among them colds, sore throat, burns, rupture, rheumatism, accidents, blood poisoning, measles.