Testimonies of Healing

When the subject of Christian Science became of frequent discussion in my home, I was experiencing some discomfort, said to be due to the excessive use of tobacco. I therefore decided to see if Christian Science could do anything for me.

As a child I was taught to love the Bible and the church, and as a child I always wanted to know about God. As I grew up, this desire led me to read all I could, and question all I could, in the endeavor to find the truth.

Physical healing by spiritual means, received through the ministrations of a Christian Science practitioner, created a desire to know of the method in which the healing was accomplished. I was told the Bible contained the recipe for healing all disease and discord, but that it must be spiritually interpreted.

When visiting the United States twenty-five years ago, I became interested in Christian Science by hearing of and seeing some good cases of healing. Physical healing did not draw me to Christian Science; but I loved it, for I found in it the correct knowledge of God.

I had a nervous breakdown and suffered much pain from what the physicians called neuritis and sciatic rheumatism. For nine months I could not walk.

Thirteen years ago I attended my first lecture on Christian Science. I went there only through a sense of courtesy and with a desire to oblige a friend, toward whom I shall always have a deep sense of gratitude; but I left the lecture with an honest desire to know more of the wonderful truth which Jesus said would make us free.

For a period of fifteen years I suffered from a painful trouble which manifested itself at regular intervals. Finally, I had to submit to an operation on the kidneys.

I was healed of a severe illness through Christian Science, which brought to me a realization of the allness of God, with whom all things are possible. My trouble started in 1901 and became more serious from day to day; and I was growing correspondingly weaker.

It is with much gratitude to God, to Mrs. Eddy, and to the Christian Scientists who have so lovingly helped me that I send this testimony of the many blessings that have come into my life since I was asked to study Christian Science by a friend, to whom I can never feel grateful enough.

It is just ten years since I first investigated Christian Science and after a few months' earnest study was convinced that this system of ethics and religion was not merely another of the numerous creeds and dogmas, but the actual law of God, operative and to be understood and obeyed. During the first few months all desire to smoke completely left me, and has never returned.