Testimonies of Healing

Several years ago, with the help of a practitioner, I was healed of pleurisy, pneumonia of both lungs, and threatened tuberculosis. During treatment for these ailments a baby, weighing two pounds and six ounces, was born prematurely.

In 1907 I became the victim of a disease which the doctors called incurable. They said that I would never be able to walk again.

Our family of four has many reasons to be grateful to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for the beautiful truth she has so plainly revealed to us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " It is with great pleasure that I tell of some of the many healings we have had in our home.

Christian Science is unfolding to me health, happiness, and understanding, and for these I am very grateful; grateful, too, for having been brought up in a home where Christian Science was the only religion, medicine, and doctor, and where the power of God through the teachings of Christian Science has been effectually applied to overcome many an erroneous condition; grateful for the privilege of attending a Christian Science Sunday School, for membership in The Mother Church in Boston and in one of its branch churches, and also for class instruction. But I am most grateful for the revelation and discovery of the goodness and allness of God, Life, and of the perfection of man, His reflection.

Having been in a cyclone about twenty years ago, for a long time thereafter I had a fear of windstorms. After I had gained some understanding of Christian Science and realized that God.

When Christian Science was first presented to me I was despondent, unhappy, and miserable in mind and body. This unhappy mental condition was expressed in a diseased physique.

Words could never sufficiently express my gratitude to God for all the blessings that have come into our home, to me and to my family, through the study and application of Christian Science. My first healing was of chronic rheumatism, which took place while I was reading the chapter on Prayer in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

Christian Science has been a wonderful help to me for many years. I became interested in it through my dear mother when I was quite a small child.

Five years ago Christian Science was presented to me, at a time when in the sorest trouble. Our second boy was very ill with tuberculosis of the throat, and after six months' medical treatment under our doctor he was ordered to undergo an operation which was a very serious one.

Eight years ago our family became interested in Christian Science when my father was in need of healing from a nervous breakdown. The healing took place after three weeks' treatment had been lovingly given by a Christian Science practitioner.