Testimonies of Healing

I am very grateful for the many blessings I have received through the healing influence of Christian Science, which has been our only physician for twenty years. I did not take up the study of Christian Science through the physical healing of myself; my attention was called to it through the healing of my wife and my daughter.

With the hope that some one may be benefited, as I have been, by the study and application of Christian Science, as given to us by Mary Baker Eddy in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I submit the following experience. I did not take up the study of Christian Science because of any physical healing, but because it illumined the Scriptures for me, showing how the truth taught by our Master was again being demonstrated through the practice of Christian Science in overcoming sin and healing the sick.

Christian Science has meant so much to me during the past eight years that I should like to express my gratitude and appreciation for all that it has done for me. During the so-called influenza epidemic of 1918 this trouble attacked me.

When my daughter was in the lower grades in the public school, medical inspection of schools was started in our city. A visiting nurse came periodically to the school, and, although I had obtained permission from the principal that my children be exempt from such examinations, in an unguarded moment my daughter was examined, and was told that she had adenoids and diseased tonsils.

This is to say that the above is a true and correct statement of the experience through which I went; and I wish to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for Christian Science. I should not know how to meet the problems of life without the knowledge which Christian Science has brought to me,—that God, good, is the only power and presence.

I wish to express my gratitude for the quick healing which I have received through Christian Science. I was in a hospital ten weeks suffering from inflammation of the kidneys, and no doctor could help me.

About four years ago I was in a bad condition due to what is known as acute neurasthenia. I had the advice of five different physicians, and carried on the treatments prescribed by them with intense eagerness, only to find myself getting rapidly worse, till the fear of having a stroke and of losing my reason seemed always with me.

There is no greater privilege in the world than to be healed in Christian Science, and to have an opportunity to tell mankind of the wonderful blessing this truth brings into every honest seeker's life. Christian Science was presented to me at a time when it seemed as if there was nothing whatever to help me, as I had had lumbago for several years at intervals.

With a heart overflowing with gratitude, I wish to express my appreciation of Christian Science, and to tell of some of the many reasons for my thankfulness. In 1917 this teaching was brought to my attention by a dear friend, and I was instantaneously healed of lockjaw, after the doctor had given me up.

The subject of Christian Science was presented to me at a time of great physical need. I had been suffering for fourteen weeks from inflammation of the eyes.