Testimonies of Healing

Many years before taking up the study of Christian Science I was healed by it of a very severe spinal disease. Fearing a doctor would say I needed to be operated upon, my parents called for Christian Science help.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude to God, and an earnest hope that it may benefit some one seeking the truth, that I write this testimony. Six years ago I was led to a Christian Science practitioner.

I have gone through what is considered a marvelous and wonderful experience by those who know me. There came a time, rather quickly and unexpectedly, when all joy, pleasure, position, health, home, family, and happiness were crowded out of my life.

It is a great pleasure to give this testimony of the protecting and healing power of divine Love, as revealed and made practicable to-day through Christian Science. In the fall of 1911 I was traveling on a passenger train, riding in the car next the engine, when our train collided head-on with a freight train.

It was my privilege to serve my country in the late war for a period of fifteen months; and during that time I often experienced the unlabored operation of Christian Science as a protective agency. In 1918, I was stationed at a concentration camp in the South.

Christian Science is the greatest blessing that ever came into my life. I have been studying it for more than eight years.

The privilege of being a student of the inspired writings of Mary Baker Eddy has brought to me the only understanding of God I have. Since I never thought I needed God until I became "incurably" ill, I can now see how important it is for religion to include the command of Christ Jesus to "heal the sick," else, when I reached "man's extremity," I should not have found it to be "God's opportunity," as revealed in Christian Science.

What a glorious revelation to this century, to know that the dream of materialism is fast waning, and that Christian Science can lift every one from all thought of self, fear, and limitation, when rightly applied! Christian Science came to me many years ago, when I was practically an invalid. My first and only thought was of self; fear was my constant companion; and my knowledge of God was indeed limited.

If Mrs. Eddy through her simplicity, purity, and compassionate love for mankind had given the world nothing else than the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer, to be found on pages 16 and 17 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I should owe her an endless debt of gratitude.

I first turned to Christian Science when I had the mumps. Those who have had experience with this malady under medical treatment know that doctors do little for it, but allow it to run its course.