Testimonies of Healing

In February, 1914, a dear friend, who belonged to the same church and taught in the same Sunday school as I, was healed through Christian Science of constipation of sixteen years' standing. This made a deep impression on me, though I had been taught by so-called orthodox parents to have nothing to do with anything that came from Mrs.

Over forty years ago we had to bear a very great sorrow, not knowing then anything about Christian Science. Later, when error again made its appearance in the family,— for according to the doctor's verdict a child was dying,—we turned to Christian Science, my husband having heard about it; and the child was healed.

Full of gratitude I wish to tell of a healing which was the means of bringing Christian Science into my home. Over four years ago I was taken seriously ill with lung trouble.

In thinking of the things for which I am most grateful to-day, I find it is for God's great goodness to all mankind; for the increased protection we have as we grow in the understanding of what God and man are; and for God's tender, loving care for those on the journey from sense to Soul, His constant presence with us, enabling us to say with the Psalmist: "O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

I desire to express my unbounded gratitude for the gift of Christian Science to humanity. For seventeen years it has been healing my sicknesses, destroying fear, and correcting temperamental errors; and in all that time I have not had medical treatment or used material medicines of any kind.

Christian Science , revealed by Mary Baker Eddy to this age, literally kept me from the grave. It brought the light of spiritual understanding, and with this spiritual illumination of consciousness there came a wonderful healing, after materia medica had failed and abandoned me to the unknown beyond.

Although my father was a physician of note, I am happy to say that our home was seldom the place for discussing disease. This naturally helped me to turn from contemplating medicine and illness.

Several years ago I sustained a compound fracture of my right ankle. There must have been a moment of unconsciousness; but as soon as I was conscious I said aloud three times, "God is All," and seemed to feel the circulation of the blood returning to my foot again.

For many years I had throat trouble, which was a barrier to my work as a teacher. Many times I had to be out of school for a week or two owing to this trouble.

When first I caught a glimpse of the truth contained in that divine message, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," I was in a hospital. I had had five operations at different times previous to this, and apparently almost every ill that "flesh is heir to.