Testimonies of Healing

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.

It is with humble gratitude for guidance along a rugged path, through earnest and faithful seeking for Truth during a long and tiresome waiting period, and for freedom from a condition of great physical inharmony, that I send this testimony. When I was quite young there was manifested a most irritating condition which the consulting physician named eczema, and for which he prescribed various remedies from time to time, none of which relieved the situation.

"Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice," wrote Paul to the Philippians. I have abundant reason to obey this exhortation; for Christian Science has lifted me from the miry clay of material beliefs, and has shown me the path to spiritual understanding.

Nearly five years ago I first came into touch with Christian Science through seeing my mother healed through its ministrations of what was considered an incurable disease; also, a dear friend, who had been very unhappy, became suddenly full of hope and joy. I could not help but admit that there was some extraordinary power in Christian Science.

After about nine years' study of Christian Science I feel ever increasingly grateful for having been led to inquire into its teaching at a time in my life when everything seemed dark, clouded, and unsatisfying. It has made religion a practical, comprehensible reality to me, and has changed my outlook upon life.

I cannot express my gratitude in words for the many healings I have received through Christian Science, which has given me a better understanding of God and of the mission of Christ Jesus, and a religion that is practical. I am grateful to our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and for the periodicals.

In the autumn of 1916, I heard about Christian Science. At the time I was suffering greatly from insomnia, fear, and agony.

For almost sixteen years before learning anything of Christian Science, I suffered from weak eyesight. For this whole period I wore glasses.

When I first came to Christian Science, eleven years ago, I was healed instantaneously of a so-called incurable disease. I was just about as ill as any one could be who was still able to get about.

When I found Christian Science, seven years ago, I was ill physically, and almost on the shoals mentally and financially. Unable to accept the ideas presented by the so-called orthodox church, and knowing nothing better to replace them, I had drifted for some years without any thought of God or any concern about the future or spirituality.