Testimonies of Healing

I should like to express my deep gratitude and joy for the great privilege of having had Christian Science brought to me, and to give thanks for the friend who brought it, and for all the loving patience she expressed under very trying circumstances in the way of great opposition in my home to anything that should take me away from the Church of England, to which we belonged. I did not come into Christian Science for the healing of sickness; but I came because I saw in it what I had been looking and longing for, what was called in the church I then went to "the second coming of Christ.

" Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!" I have too long delayed giving publicity to an expression of this praise. At the age of seventeen I was pronounced a tubercular patient by my physician; and this diagnosis was confirmed by many other physicians in examinations for life insurance, and in treating me for the many ills I suffered for more than thirty years.

My interest in Christian Science began when I was just a child, about twelve or fourteen years old; and I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings received since that time. The realization seemed to come to me then that God was my only helper, and that Christian Science was the way.

I wish to express deepest gratitude for all the blessings that Christian Science has brought into my life. It is twenty years since I first heard of this blessed truth, and through all these years I have been sustained and protected and comforted with the slight understanding I have had.

Filled with desire to help suffering humanity I gave up the teaching profession and became a nurse. After a few years of practical nursing, this profession did not satisfy me any longer.

For many years I had been ill. I had undergone three serious operations.

When I took up the study of Christian Science through the healing of a loved sister from what had been diagnosed as an incurable disease, at first I found it to my unenlightened sense, as Mrs. Eddy says in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

I Am unable to express fully my deep gratitude to our Father-Mother God for leading me into Christian Science. It has been my rod and staff through dangers, through trials,—domestic and business,—in health and sickness, in work and recreation, ever since that happy day fourteen years ago when its light first shone into my consciousness.

" The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms," we read in Deuteronomy. Through the teachings of Christian Science I have been able to prove the truth of these words many times.

I too wish to express my sincere gratitude for the blessings which I have experienced through Christian Science. I was unable to recover from the effects of what the doctors considered a severe stomach trouble.