Testimonies of Healing

Christian science came into my life seven and a half years ago, when I was bowed down and brokenhearted with a great sorrow. Although I had been a church member for over twenty years, and loved my church, earnestly seeking to put its teachings into practice, I was like a ship without an anchor, and my whole nature was being changed by the resentful, bitter thoughts which were constantly my companions.

I think no one can have greater cause for gratitude for Christian Science than I have; for it has given to me all I possess of good to-day in the way of health, joy, and peace in my life. Christian Science came to me when I was hopeless, both mentally and physically.

When christian science with its sweet promise of deliverance came into my life, I was so unhappy I thought I did not want to live. I had been subject to epileptic attacks for fourteen years, had spent all I had for medical treatment, and was dependent on relatives for almost everything.

I had submitted to two major and five minor operations. I had been assured by a physician at the time of the last one, in 1914, that I would never be troubled again.

In 1914 Christian Science found me without hope and without God. My life was so miserable I longed for death, and felt at times that if I did not get relief I should do something to end my life.

I feel the time has come for me to tell a little of what Christian Science has done for me and been to me in the twenty-four years it has been my comfort, healer, and guide, freeing me greatly from the bondage of fear by the understanding of the truth of being and the allness of God, good. My mother had long been an invalid and great sufferer, and when given up by both schools of physicians was led to attend a Christian Science lecture.

It is nine years since we first heard of Christian Science. We were spending the winter in Switzerland, where we had gone for the health of our younger daughter, who was suffering from tuberculous glands.

Some years ago my wife was healed, through the loving help of a Christian Science practitioner, of a long standing ailment called acute indigestion, and of other inharmonious physical conditions. She is now happily enjoying the comforts of the ever-presence of God's love.

I feel that God has been so good to me, through the understanding of Christian Science, that I should like to give my testimony as to its healing power. I was for a number of years a sufferer from nervous indigestion.

In love and gratitude for all that Christian Science is teaching me I send this testimony, and trust it may prove helpful to others. Christian Science has given me an altogether wider and brighter outlook.