Testimonies of Healing

I feel that the time has arrived for me to add mine to the numerous testimonies of blessings derived from Christian Science. Up to the age of fifty years I had lived a self-satisfied life, thinking that I knew all that was necessary, religiously and otherwise.

I too wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science. From the first year of my life I suffered from asthma, which grew worse yearly.

The years that I have been a student of Christian Science have been the happiest years of my life. Physical disturbances, such as bowel trouble, skin disease, burns, have been overcome by the power of Truth, as also has mental distress, manifesting itself in fear, lack of supply, failure of plans.

Many years ago, when trouble and sorrow seemed my only companions, and life not worth living, Christian Science was presented to me by a dear relative. Little did I dream then that it would change my whole outlook on life, and make me happy; but through the years that have followed, I have proved what Paul says: "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

In 1906, after many years of suffering and semi-invalidism, a friend asked me to try Christian Science. My daughter bought "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, also a Christian Science Quarterly for me; and I read the book and studied the Lesson-Sermons faithfully.

It does not seem possible for me to express in words my profound gratitude for what Christian Science means to me. I have indeed found it to be the "pearl of great price.

For many years I have lived on the island of Java; and three years ago, previous to leaving the East Indies for Holland, I planned to take a trip into the interior with a friend. A few weeks before our departure, I was seized with a quartan fever, which is a species of malaria that is much dreaded in the East Indies, and which recurs every three days.

In the twelve years that I have been a student of Christian Science it has proved itself to me to be the law of God in the working out of human problems,—inexorable toward evil, but ineffable love to my daily needs. Through close contact with a so-called contagious disease named "itch" my daughter and I let its ugly pictures into our thought, and these soon manifested themselves on our bodies.

For years I was afflicted with chronic sick headaches. I was in the theatrical profession.

" The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. " When a dear friend told me of the light that had shone for him through the revelation of Truth in Christian Science, I immediately became aware that a long-felt want in my own life had been supplied.