Testimonies of Healing

It is with the deepest gratitude that I testify to the blessings I have received in Christian Science Some thirty years ago I was sick, helpless, hopeless; and I often said if I could not be healed I was ready to die. In that hour of need a dear friend who had taken up the study of Christian Science came to me, and asked if I would not like to be healed as people were in the days of the apostles.

In the fall of 1914, following a series of business reverses, I turned to Christian Science to find relief from worry and spells of extreme despondency, often accompanied by suggestions of suicide. When I mentioned this trouble to a dear friend and student of Christian Science, she told me the next time I was so depressed to declare, "God is my life.

Two or three years before hearing of Christian Science I had ceased to attend church, and had also lost faith in materia medica during an illness which two doctors failed to diagnose. I had frequent attacks of pain, which usually kept me in bed for three or four days at a time.

One morning, about two years ago, my mother awoke with a very severe pain in her head, and did not seem able to remember things clearly. We were very much alarmed, but did not send for a physician.

One who has felt the touch of infinite Love finds it hard to express his gratitude in words. I can never begin to tell the half of what Christian Science has done for me, but shall at least try, thereby hoping to lead some weary wanderer in the wilderness of earthly thinking to the light, as revealed in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

For the past three years I have been attending the meetings of the Christian Science church and reading the works of Mrs. Eddy; and I wish to express my gratitude for the good I have received.

I wish to express my gratitude to Christian Science for the help I receive daily through the study of the Lesson-Sermons and all the authorized literature. It is eight years since I began the study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

Three years ago I was recovering from a broken hip, running sores, and a large tumorous growth, which together had tended to make me rather disagreeable. I had read the Bible all my life with the ordinary understanding of it, and had thought I should have to resign myself to my afflictions, until Christian Science was brought to my notice.

For the many healings we have had in our home, one of which my wife relates in the foregoing testimony, we have unbounded gratitude. Since taking up the study of Christian Science we have experienced untold blessings: our home is happier and more harmonious; the children are sturdy and healthy; and I personally have found Christian Science to be a wonderful help in business, meeting with success in all problems relating to supply, service, brotherly love, and the like.

With a desire to express my gratitude for Christian Science, and with the thought of helping others to be free from physical ills, I take great pleasure in sending in my testimony for publication. For ten years I suffered untold agonies from what the doctors called inflammatory rheumatism, which would lay me up for three or four months each year.