
Testimonies of Healing
In Psalms we are admonished, "Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. " And so I feel impelled to use the channel provided by our periodicals to voice my deep gratitude for God's goodness and for His constant care and guidance.
I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to Christian Science for what it has done for my family and for me during the past twenty years. I shall always endeavor to be grateful to God and to His servant, Mary Baker Eddy, that I was led to this beautiful truth, which heals and saves.
I desire to do my duty to God and to Christian Science, also to Mary Baker Eddy, by expressing my sincere gratitude for my healing in Christian Science. When I was three years old, I had an abscess in one of my ears and suffered intensely.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me that I want to tell others what it can also do for them. About five years ago I found myself in a very bad state of depression which I was unable to throw off.
I wish to express my gratitude for all the blessings we have received through the study of Christian Science. We became interested in this Science during the summer of 1917 through the healing of our daughter, who was then fifteen years old.
The Science of correct thinking was brought to my attention five years ago by the healing of a neighbor of tuberculosis. A copy of The Christian Science Journal and two copies of the Christian Science Sentinel were handed me upon inquiry; and although deeply embittered against what I thought religion was, I was curious to know the foundation of a religion that could accomplish such a cure.
I came into Christian Science after I had tried many ologies and isms, and found no help or peace therein. Although at first disbelieving in its healing power, I realized its message of hope.
I take pleasure in expressing my gratitude for all the blessings I have received through Christian Science. For a time our existence could be compared to a small boat on a rolling sea, beaten on all sides by threatening waves of sickness and every other sort of inharmony.
It is with great gratitude for what Christian Science has done, and still is doing, not only in my own family but throughout the whole world, that I send this testimony. One of the things for which I am very grateful is the privilege of attending the Christian Science Sunday School when a girl.
I Am profoundly grateful to God that I have found the truth which makes free, and especially happy for the understanding which is daily unfolding to me Jesus' words: "I can of mine own self do nothing," and, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. " Christian Science came into my life eleven years ago, but for only a few years have I been able to apply the truth aright.