Testimonies of Healing

One evening I slipped on the ice and fell, injuring my left wrist. That night it seemed very painful, and I slept little.

I wish to express my gratitude for the many benefits I have received since taking up the study of Christian Science. Whether the problem is large or small, however deep the waters of error may seem to be, Truth is the victor if we faint not.

I am greatly indebted to the teachings of Christian Science, for on many occasions I have experienced help in times of severe sickness and discordant conditions. The more carefully and more devotedly I study this Science and apply its teachings in daily life, the more clearly I see and recognize the great blessing that it contains.

I have received many blessings since I have known of Christian Science, and feel deeply grateful to God for having led me to this glorious truth, which makes men free. It has shown me more and more the meaning of the words, "God is love.

This testimony is but a faint expression of gratitude for the restoration of my sight, which was slowly leaving me, and for the healing of anæmia. At the age of ten years I became afflicted with inflammation of the eyes, and was compelled to wear glasses all the time.

When I lost my husband, I also lost my home. My little daughter, then three years and three months old, had only partly recovered from a very severe attack of grippe, accompanied by pneumonia and whooping cough, while I myself was unable to get over the weakness caused by grippe and inflammation of the larynx.

About eight years ago I was taken ill with inflammatory rheumatism. For three weeks I was not able to move unless some one helped me.

For many years I lived what is called a worldly life. I was fond of social drinking, was an inveterate smoker, and was obsessed with a mania for gambling.

In the year 1913 I had the good fortune to meet a person who told me something about Christian Science. The textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was procured, and while I was reading the first page of the Preface the thought dawned upon me that this was what I had been looking for for twenty years; and with a feeling that I had never experienced before, I joyfully expressed my newfound hopes to my wife.

Two years ago, when our youngest son was about three weeks old, we had a severe hailstorm in our vicinity, which broke several large windows in our house, letting in great gusts of wind and rain. The next night I was stricken with a gathering in my breast.