Testimonies of Healing

I have received so many blessings through Christian Science, more than I can ever speak of, and am so full of gratitude to God, that I send the following experience. In the year 1901, I started my training as a nurse in a large general hospital, the doctors giving an unwilling consent to the experiment, as I had had several epileptic fits in 1893 and 1895 and also in my childhood.

In 1905 a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was placed in my hands in the hope that through the reading and study of it I might aid in the healing of disease in one of my family. To what extent I was able to help in that case I do not know, but I know that there came a change for the better in my own mental and physical condition which was marked, and which has been permanent.

That Christian Science heals, I have been able to prove many times in the past fourteen years. It never fails when properly applied.

Gratitude for all the activities of the Christian Science organization, as well as for our periodicals and the many helpful testimonies contained therein, impels me to add my own, which is much overdue. It is now over fifteen years since I first heard of Christian Science.

About a year ago, my small daughter returned from school one day with a sense of great discomfort, and by evening was so feverish that a practitioner was called. The next morning the fever was entirely gone, and on the third day the child was back in school, perfectly well.

Through reading the metaphysical article on the Home Forum page of The Christian Science Monitor for April 20, 1922, I have come to realize that this testimony must be given, for the reason that it glorifies God and conforms to the request of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. In February, 1908, my sister wrote us that she had been healed, by reading the Christian Science Sentinel, of an abscessed tooth which had caused her a great deal of pain.

Over ten years ago Christian Science found our home in the depths of darkness and despair, for the doctors had told my husband, who had been suffering for some months from heart trouble, that he could not expect to be well again. It was then that man's extremity in our case, for Christian Science healed him.

I am so grateful for all the blessings that have come to me through the knowledge of Christian Science. I can hardly remember the time when I did not rely on God's power to heal, for I was a very small girl when my mother first became interested in the study of this truth.

With a deep sense of gratitude for the way Christian Science has led and is still leading us, I shall relate a healing which was the means of making an entire family students of this gospel of healing. About seven years ago, while we were living in the country, one of our children, then a girl in her early teens, developed pneumonia.

Before getting acquainted with Christian Science I underwent a good deal of physical suffering, but worse than this was the constant fear of an hereditary tendency to mental depression. A sincere love for study made me choose a university career.