Testimonies of Healing
My heart is filled with gratitude as memory recalls experiences through which Christian Science has been my support and protection. After many weary years of seeking for relief, when all material means of regaining health had been exhausted and physicians had said there was no help for me, the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
I am so glad to know that I can rely absolutely on God! We are told that we really know only what we are able to prove; and Christian Science is teaching me that in the degree that I trust God and keep the Commandments, that is, refuse to believe in a power or presence apart from God, good, the proofs will be gained. During the fifteen years since I became interested in Christian Science it has healed all discordant conditions that have arisen, and has been my only physician.
Just two weeks before Christmas, 1918, I was suddenly taken ill with what appeared to be neuralgia; and thinking the trouble was caused by a tooth, I made an appointment with a dentist. That night my eye seemed to be affected, and other erroneous conditions manifested themselves.
Full of gratitude for Christian Science, I should like to give the following testimony. Several years ago I was taken ill with an internal complaint.
It is with deep gratitude to God and to Christian Science that I send this testimony. In October, 1921, Christian Science was a great help to me at the birth of a child.
I wish to express my gratitude for the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science, made manifest during the thirteen and a half years that I have been studying it. My first healing was of ptomaine poisoning; and my second of a severe form of dysentery.
In loving gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me and mine, I wish to give this testimony. It has been my only help for about eight years.
It is eleven years since I took up the study of Christian Science. I was at that time in great need of physical healing.
Nearly fourteen years ago I became interested in Christian Science through a friend who was healed of a severe case of tonsillitis in two treatments. At that time I was a graduate nurse from a medical hospital.
Words are inadequate to express my gratitude for the blessed truths which Mrs. Eddy has given to the world in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and her other writings.