Testimonies of Healing

Some four years ago my son, then about ten years old, went downtown on his bicycle to do an errand. The driver of an automobile, in turning out from the curb, did not notice the child, and drove right into him, knocking him off the bicycle.

In the autumn of 1918 I was healed of influenza by the right application of Christian Science. I asked alms "at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful," and was instantly healed.

In the year 1914, I was very far from being a well person, and upon calling on a doctor I was told that I had gallstones, which called for an operation. Instead of returning for the operation, however, I turned to Christian Science, upon the recommendation of a friend, who knew of it through his family but was not a Christian Scientist himself.

I began to study Christian Science because I was miserable, sick, and unhappy. Never having been satisfied with the old scholastic teaching, I had a strong desire to know more about the one God.

In December, 1920, I suddenly fell ill with a nervous disorder, which ended in total weakness of the muscles and in cerebral trouble that necessitated my leaving my work, for all mental effort had become impossible. Treatment was advised for me in a well-known clinic, where for three months I received the care that this kind of illness demanded; but I felt no benefit.

When I first found Christian Science I was in a very weakened, anæmic condition. A friend brought "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy into our home.

My first knowledge of Christian Science came through a remarkable woman who, with her daughter, made her home with us for several years when I was a child. The mother was then about sixty-four years of age, and had been an invalid for forty years, due to a severe hernia and acute stomach trouble.

It is now many years since I became a student of Christian Science, and many are the blessings and healings I have experienced. I cannot conceive what life would be to me without the knowledge of the truth that Christian Science reveals.

I think I can safely say that were it not for what Christian Science has done for me during the past two years, I would not be here today, not because I have been saved by it from any fatal disease, but because my general mental and physical condition was gradually driving me to the serious contemplation of suicide. I had every ill which, according to materia medica, is supposed to herald nervous breakdown.

I am indeed grateful to God and to Mary Baker Eddy for Christian Science. For fifteen years I was in very poor health, suffering from tuberculosis and floating kidney, and unable to do any kind of housework.