Testimonies of Healing

In February, 1919, I was discharged from the army with what was pronounced a functional heart disorder. In the next two years this difficulty steadily became more aggravated, and I spent many weary hours going from one doctor to another in search of relief.

When I became a student of Christian Science I was one of the most miserable women living. I spent a great part of my time planning a way to end my life.

When I was a child it seemed as if some one in our family was always sick. My mother had been a semi-invalid for several years, and my sister, brother, and I were far from healthy children.

My mother has often told me that from babyhood I was so frail and weak that when she had to be away from me she was always fearful of no longer finding me alive upon her return. However, I grew up, but had to spend much time in the mountains in order to strengthen myself.

It has been my experience to find the way into Christian Science strewn with obstacles, but with me all the time was a desire to be right; and this desire carried me along so that when the claims of hypnotism, spiritualism, theosophy, new-thought came into my life they made no lasting impression. After this phase had passed, the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was presented to me; but the truths it contains were so obscured by personal sense and falsities in my own thinking as to be well-nigh unrecognizable.

I did not accept Christian Science on account of any physical healing of my own; but after witnessing the healing of my mother of blood poisoning through Christian Science, when she seemed to be very near death's door, I was convinced that this must be the same truth taught by Christ Jesus. This was twenty-two years ago, and my mother is still living.

Having been helped and encouraged many times by testimonies given in the Journal or Sentinel , or at Wednesday evening testimony meetings, I wish to testify to the great blessings that have come to me through the teachings of Christian Science. I first turned to Christian Science for healing in August, 1896.

Christian Science means everything in the world to me. During the past twenty-four years it has been our only physician.

Christian Science came to me in answer to prayer for light and guidance, while I was teaching in a denominational Sunday school. I had been much distressed at the seeming inconsistency of the Bible, though I had been a student of it for years; but through the study of Christian Science I was able to understand the true nature of God and apply the truth by taking God at His word.

Gratefully I acknowledge the untold blessings that have come to me since I began to grasp the truth as unfolded to me in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. About seven years ago I was healed of stomach, kidney, and heart trouble, also of rheumatism of long standing, for which I had been taking medicine for over sixteen years without any result.