Testimonies of Healing

In reading the many testimonies at the end of the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was convinced they must be true, or people would not write and subscribe to such statements.

In the year 1904, I became interested in Christian Science. Since then God has been my only Physician.

It is with a feeling of deepest gratitude that I wish to testify to the beautiful healing power of Christian Science, as demonstrated to me through the healing of smallpox. With the kind and loving help of a practitioner, all signs of the disease disappeared.

With a heart filled with gratitude for the life of our inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who lived so close to God that she could show us how to walk in the footsteps of Christ Jesus, this testimony is offered. About six years ago, as I was about to take a higher step in the demonstration of Christian Science, I was suddenly stricken with what physicians call an incurable disease.

At the time Christian Science was recommended to me I was suffering from inflammatory rheumatism for which the doctors could give me no relief. Immediately after Christian Science treatments were started I felt much better in every way, and was soon completely healed.

In the fall of 1907, I was taken ill with a lame back. I did not think of going to a physician for help, but thought to work it out through physical culture.

When Christian Science was presented to me I was in a hospital after a severe operation, with the expectation of three more as soon as I was able to stand them. A Christian Science pamphlet had been sent to me.

My first healing through Christian Science occurred a few days after an operation for appendicitis, which had left me in despair and not caring whether I lived or died. An acquaintance, living in the same house, lent me for a few days a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

For many years I suffered from a floating cartilage under the kneecap. Five years ago I had an operation performed by one of the best orthopedic specialists in the state.

I deem it a duty gratefully to acknowledge a healing which took place from an attack of influenza, preceded by a heavy fall on the ice last winter. At that time I was living where I was surrounded by medical thought and great fear of this particular phase of disease.