Testimonies of Healing

I know I have too long withheld my testimony of what Christian Science has done for me and mine during the past eleven years. During that time it has been our only physician, a preventive as well as a curative for every discord.

Ever since September, 1910, I have been reading the testimonies in The Christian Science Journal and Christian Science Sentinel , and many is the time I have resolved to write and tell of the many blessings I, as well as my family, have received through Christian Science. Before taking up Christian Science I had been considered a semi-invalid for a number of years, suffering from bronchitis, rheumatism, indigestion, and other ills too numerous to mention.

Christian Science has brought to me many blessings, and I am deeply grateful for them all; but the one for which I feel most thankful is the understanding I am gaining of God through the study of Christian Science, for it has given me a God I can understand and love and demonstrate in my daily life. The healing power of Christian Science has been demonstrated innumerable times, and so-called medical laws have been broken through the work of a Christian Science practitioner for me.

I awoke one morning with every symptom of what physicians would call diphtheria, and as the day advanced the condition appeared more alarming, the throat seeming to be almost entirely closed. With the help of a loving Christian Science practitioner, on the morning of the third day I ate quite a hearty breakfast; and before evening every indication of disease had vanished.

My first healing in Christian Science was the almost unconscious laying off of glasses while reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I had worn them for study and work for over five years; but I simply forgot I had been in the habit of wearing them.

Many are the benefits I have received since taking up the study of Christian Science thirteen years ago. I am especially grateful for the correct understanding of the Bible that Christian Science has given me— to know that it is evil that is to be "cast out into outer darkness," and not God's children.

Several years ago I turned to Christian Science when I had become utterly discouraged on account of continued ills. I was under the care of a specialist, and had been for some time; and he had just told me that if the diseased condition of a bone did not heal that week he would have to operate.

Before coming into Christian Science, I suffered from constant colds, children's diseases, sore throat, earache, accidents, and a sense of grief at being bereft of a father; also from self-pity at being the youngest member of the family. All these have been quickly and finally healed in Science, and I rejoice in the fact.

When Christian Science first came to me I was in the depths of unhappiness and despair, which condition I can now plainly see was brought about through my false concept of existence. I was seeking happiness and contentment through material channels, but found only disappointment and sorrow.

During the early part of 1917 a growth started on my ear. After a short time it became sore, and grew larger; and I had every reason to believe it was something malignant.