Testimonies of Healing

Words cannot express my gratitude for Christian Science, and for the many ministrations which I have received through it. My first experience, which I am about to relate, stands out as wonderful.

One day on my way to make a call, it was necessary for me to go down rather a long, steep hill, and quite suddenly I sprained my ankle. The pain seemed almost unbearable, but these inspiring words from the Bible came to me as a sufficient guide: "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

Out of a heart full of gratitude to God, to Christ Jesus, and to Mrs. Eddy, the God-inspired woman who has given "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" with its wonderful revelation of the truth about God and man to all humanity, this testimony is given.

It is with a heart full of gratitude that I take this occasion to testify to what Christian Science has done for me. From my earliest recollection I had been troubled with constipation; and as I grew older hemorrhoids developed.

Seventeen years ago, while in New York city, I turned to Christian Science for help when all material remedies had failed. I was told by physicians never to be without a certain powerful medicine for my heart; and whenever these attacks came, I always called a physician, who gave me a hypodermic injection.

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.

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.