Testimonies of Healing

[Original testimony in German] I wish to express my great gratitude for a quick healing I experienced through Christian Science. In September, 1921, I was stung by a wasp on the back of my neck.

The testimony of my wife is true. From that date I felt no more of the tired head.

I like to recall one of our early experiences in Christian Science, because it convinced us that Christian Science does heal, and that we, with our very limited understanding, got results. My husband had just told me that he had almost decided that he must give up his business, possibly permanently, and take a long vacation in search of rest and recuperation.

A short time ago I fell heavily down some very slippery steps outside my home on the Crown Mines, Johannesburg, into an open cemented drain, breaking my wrist. I picked myself up and sat for a minute or two on the step, declaring that God was my help.

Christian Science came to my knowledge several years ago through the healing of a friend in the last stages of Bright's disease. It was not the need of healing that attracted me, although I have had many blessings in that line; it was the beautiful thought that the Christ lives to-day as in Jesus' time.

I was influenced to become interested in Christian Science by "the silent lesson of a good example" ( Miscellaneous Writings, p. 126 ).

[Original testimony in French] I desire to express my deep gratitude for the blessings which I have received from Christian Science. About four years ago I was in a lamentable physical and mental condition, all the more unhappy because I did not believe in anything.

The first healing which came to me, after becoming interested in Christian Science, was the healing of my eyes. I had worn glasses from the time I was about twelve or thirteen years of age, and it was said by an oculist that I should always have to wear them.

Many years ago I was confronted with evil in the form of the drug habit, superinduced by a number of physical conditions which produced great suffering, and for which morphine was given. It was supposed to be hereditary.

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.