Testimonies of Healing

In childhood I loved to hear about children who applied Christian Science to their needs, so I am grateful for this opportunity to tell something of my own early experience. Among the first things I was taught in Christian Science was the great fact that God, Spirit, is the Father and Mother of man, and that His love is ever present to protect His children from harm.

In the words of the Psalmist: "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise;" "Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving. " One of the several beautiful lessons I learned from the trying experience I wish here to relate, was that daily, hourly, our voices must be raised in thanks to God, and our thoughts filled with gratitude for the many blessings already received, if we hope by higher demonstrations to "enter into his gates" and "come before his presence.

Gratitude impels me to send this testimony, with the hope that it will bring comfort to others, thought space permits me to mention but a few of the many blessings that the study and application of Christian Science have brought into my life. From childhood I had a great desire to know more of the creator.

Six years ago, coming from Chile, South America, I stopped in New York, knowing nothing about Christian Science. A short time after my arrival a young lady came to the house where I was boarding, and from the first moment she attracted my attention by her healthy, happy appearance.

On page 283 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read, "Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action. " This passage brought me from darkness into the light of the understanding of Truth, into freedom; for I had been in bondage many years.

With a heart full of gratitude I am writing this testimony. After struggling for years in a sea of doubt, looking for truth, I turned to Christian Science as a relief from many sorrows.

I came into Christian Science for physical healing, after being under the care of physicians for years and receiving no benefit. It healed me in one treatment of a condition of the glands of the neck which caused me constant suffering, and which had been pronounced incurable by three physicians.

It is with gratitude for what Christian Science has done and is doing for me that I send this testimony. Six years have passed since I took any medicine, whereas before I used it continually.

It is a great pleasure to confirm my wife's testimony as to her healing in Christian Science. For years she was under medical treatment; and the verdict of her own doctor, confirmed by a specialist, was that she must resign herself to being an invalid for the rest of her life.

In 1913 I first heard of Christian Science. A friend told me a little about it, and said many had been healed by it.