Testimonies of Healing

I suffered for thirty-five years from numerous ailments, among them serious stomach and bowel trouble, which many physicians and material remedies failed to cure, and seldom relieved; and for almost fifty years I had striven ineffectually under the old teachings of Protestant religions for spiritual light about God and man. I did not know what to believe, or how to get out of my physical suffering.

One evening I was thrown down by an automobile. One of the front wheels of the machine went over my legs and then backed off.

In 1912 I was in very bad health and constantly under medical treatment. I had never been strong, and doctors said I never would be, as the trouble was constitutional.

It is with a deep sense of joy that I acknowledge what Christian Science has done and is doing for me. My thought goes back over a period of five years to the time when I, like the prodigal son, was living in a "far country," with only the desire to satisfy my constant longing for material pleasure, and selfishly seeking every possible means whereby I might continually enjoy what the world calls a good time.

It is now about three years since I first heard of Christian Science. For a long time before, I had not attended any place of worship; but one Sunday morning I saw a friend who was going to church, and in answer to my inquiry she said she was going to a Christian Science service.

It is with a heart full of gratitude to God and to Christian Science that I tell of the first two healings I had in Christian Science. I was discharged from the army as a physical wreck.

[Original testimony in German] In 1909 my husband caught a bad cold, to which we did not at first pay much attention. However, it grew worse, so that he was frequently compelled to stay in bed.

For twenty years before this blessed truth found me I had searched for remedies, and had tried everything that offered any hope of relief from the bondage of sickness, which would manifest itself in various forms. During a period of about three years I tried twelve doctors in Chicago.

Through the study and application of the truth as revealed to us in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and the other writings of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, my whole life has been changed. From early childhood to womanhood I suffered from one illness after another, until a fall on the stairs sent me to the hospital, where it seemed necessary to submit to surgery.

When the thought came to me to send an expression of gratitude to the Christian Science periodicals, it was quickly followed by the suggestion to wait until I had had a wonderful healing in Christian Science. Then I thought, What could be more wonderful than the way I have been protected ever since I took up this study? From the time I was six months old, when I had a very serious illness, until I came into Science many years ago, I was never free from the fear of having some of the physical troubles to which I was subject.