Testimonies of Healing

It is only when I look back on the time before I knew of Christian Science that I realize something of the difference it is making in my life. It is changing me into a happy, healthy woman.

It has been my desire for some time to express my gratitude for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science. Last fall (1921), while driving through a field in a buggy with my husband and three little girls, we ran over a corn planter, which was hidden by weeds.

As a young girl I liked very much to read the Bible, especially the New Testament, for I loved and reverenced the character of Jesus. There were many passages, however, which aroused a great sense of fear, as for instance those that referred to hell and eternal damnation.

I wish to express gratitude, through the Christian Science periodicals, for a healing which came to me recently by means of the power of Truth, as set forth in Christian Science. In some manner, while lifting heavy weights, I injured my back, apparently straining the muscles at the hip joints.

It gives me great pleasure to express my gratitude for the benefits I have received in Christian Science. About three years ago, I had a beautiful healing of which I should like to write.

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.