Testimonies of Healing

In the year 1914 I took up the study of Christian Science for the healing of my son's eyes. They were very weak and inflamed, supposedly as the after effect of measles.

Through the healing of my son of pneumonia several years ago, I became interested in Christian Science, although another member of the family had been studying this Science for about two years prior to that time. Soon after taking up the study, I was able to prove the efficacy of Christian Science with the aid of a practitioner, by overcoming a dislocated hip.

Christian Science has brought me many blessings, and I am deeply grateful for them all; but the one for which I feel most thankful is the understanding I am gaining of God through the study of Christian Science; for it has given me a God I can understand and love and demonstrate in my daily life as divine Principle. The healing power of Christian Science has been demonstrated innumerable times to each member of my family, as well as to myself, and so-called medical laws have been broken.

I first heard of Christian Science some years ago. Previous to that time I had been for years in a very feeble and delicate condition of health, the doctors saying I had lung trouble.

It is a number of years since a former neighbor and friend called at my home and asked me to investigate Christian Science, saying she was almost convinced that it was true. Although I knew very little about Christian Science at that time, I was glad to have an opportunity to learn more.

For ten years Christian Science has been my sole reliance, and it has freed me from all resort to medication, besides bringing to me the first satisfactory interpretation of the Bible and revealing God to me. At a time when the world is beset by many so-called mental cures, based on the carnal mind, I feel that my testimony should be given in proof of spiritual healing through Christian Science.

I feel that I should witness to what Christian Science has done for my enlightenment and salvation. During nearly forty years I was a pastor of churches of one of the larger bodies of professing Christians.

I have read other people's testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals for twenty years, and listened to those given at the midweek meetings for many years, but every time I have tried to tell about a few of the many wonderful benefits we have experienced in our family, some argument would hinder me. I have learned, however, that any expression of good, any desire to help others, comes from God; that I am only a channel through which good is expressed.

" Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, and thou hast delivered me. " This is always my psalm of gratitude for having been delivered from a life of sickness and sin.

It is with a heart overflowing with gratitude and joy that I should like to express what Christian Science has done for me. In these last five years, since I turned to Christian Science, many physical ills have been overcome in our family and harmony restored.