Testimonies of Healing

For many years God has been my only physician. When I first became interested in Christian Science I was wearing glasses for a very serious condition which a specialist termed muscle trouble.

It is with the desire to be grateful that I am giving this testimony to the power of Truth. It would be impossible for me to count the blessings I have received in Christian Science, and am receiving through the daily study of the Lesson-Sermon and the other writings which our Leader has provided for us.

Christian Science came to me a little over four years ago, when I was without hope in the world. It mastered many discordant conditions, including a desire to die and a dread of the grave (see Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p.

For twenty-five years I was a slave to medicine; and why it is that the human race will continue to rely on earthly remedies for their ailments when the balm of Gilead is at their very door, is now a mystery to me. Taking some kind of medicine almost daily, I would be all right for a few days, then have to take to my bed again, perhaps for two or three months at a time.

Five years ago I was stricken with rheumatism; I grew worse, until finally I was in an almost helpless condition. I had no use of my left arm or hand, which was so badly swollen that I could not move my fingers; and I was obliged to carry this arm in a sling for three weeks.

When we decided to investigate Christian Science, in August, 1914, we first attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting and enjoyed it; then we attended the following Sunday morning service and enjoyed that. The following Tuesday I went to the Christian Science Reading Room, bought a Christian Science Quarterly, borrowed a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and then went out to a second-hand store and bought a Bible with large, clear print, for fifteen cents.

I, like many others, wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings which have come to me and to my family through the study of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I wish to mention a few healings we have received.

It is indeed impossible to find words adequate to express my sincere gratitude for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science. My earnest desire and prayer from childhood to know where I might find God, led me to Christian Science, through which the truth has been revealed.

Early in 1917, I became suddenly ill. The doctor who attended me informed me that I was suffering from valvular heart trouble.

That Christian Science is the teaching of our Lord and Master has been proved to me numberless times. I was in bondage to a disease inherited through three generations.