Testimonies of Healing
I am deeply grateful to God that He led me to Christian Science at the comparatively early age of twenty-one years. Through the loving work of a practitioner, and through my earnest study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, sicknesses, both mental and physical, which could never have been healed by physicians, have been healed.
In "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 83 ) Mrs.
When I came into Christian Science, over six years ago, I was having one of the best specialists in New York city treat me for loose kidney and headaches. For these troubles the doctors could find no help.
I should like to express my gratitude for the life-giving currents of Christian Science. Before coming into Science I was practically an invalid, having been for four years in bed most of the time.
In 1907 I became very ill with uric acid poisoning, said to be in its worst form. The heart had become badly affected, and I could walk only with great difficulty.
I should like to express my gratitude for the wonderful revelation Mrs. Eddy's teaching has been to me.
" Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. " This statement on page 494 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, has been proved true in my case.
The healing efficacy of Christian Science was impressively brought to my attention some ten years ago, when my wife was healed in a manner that seemed to me little short of a miracle. At this time I was personally suffering from a severe form of indigestion and under the treatment of one of this city's best physicians, but seemed to be steadily getting worse.
For some years before hearing about Christian Science, I felt that the teachings of the church of which I was then a member did not enable me to practice my religion sufficiently in my daily life. One evening my husband brought home the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which had been lent him by a friend who had been healed through its teachings.
In the summer of 1921 my father became suddenly ill with what his physician said was a stoppage of the gall duct, or gallstones. The only remedy, he said, was an operation, which he could not recommend on account of my father's age and a condition of overweight.