Testimonies of Healing

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.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," written by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, we find on page 141 a most wonderful explanation of the stumbling stone which prevents, to a great extent, our spiritual development. She says: "Few understand or adhere to Jesus' divine precepts for living and healing.

We had heard of Christian Science for several years from friends who practiced it, but we gave it very little attention as we always thought that to believe in this Science we would need to witness a very great healing. In spite of this, my mother and one of my sisters went from time to time to the Christian Science Wednesday evening testimony meetings and to the Sunday services, which interested them very much; but I had never attended.

It is with great gratitude that I send this testimony regarding some of the many blessings which have come to me through the study of Christian Science. I became interested in this teaching about seven years ago; and three days after beginning the study of it I was healed of a trouble which had been going on for nearly four years, and for which there seemed to be no material remedy.

I became interested in Christian Science through my husband's healing. After I had gone to church with him for some time the hymns became familiar to me.

In December, 1905, while serving in the United States army at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, I was attacked by what doctors term renal colic, or gravel in the right kidney. I suffered from this so-called disease for four years and a half before I heard of Christian Science.