Testimonies of Healing

Having attended the Christian Science Sunday School and been taught by one of our lecturers, and my mother having been at one time a Reader in a Christian Science church and now a practitioner, I thought I was well grounded. When I went out into the business world, however, instead of taking my only help with me, I became estranged from the beautiful influences of Christian Science; and my troubles began.

For thirty years I suffered from a complication of salt rheum and eczema, and although I tried many physicians they could not help me, so I asked a practitioner to give me Christian Science treatment, which entirely cured me. That was seventeen years ago; and from that day to this I have never had a return of the trouble.

I have been a student of Christian Science for some time. Before this, I had an operation for gallstones.

I am deeply thankful to God, and grateful to Christian Science for the healing of quinsy sore throat; for I could not eat or drink, or even lie down because of it. I called a Christian Science practitioner in the morning and had treatment.

All my life I had been hindered in my studies and profession by a dreaminess, a lack of application or concentration which no teacher had detected or at least been able to help me overcome; and it was not until I studied Christian Science that it was uncovered and brought to light in my own thought so that I could overcome it. Timidity was another serious hindrance.

Words cannot express my gratitude to God for Christian Science. I was in a most deplorable condition, physically as well as mentally, when Truth healed me.

Our little girl of two years suddenly became very ill; and in the morning about five o'clock, she had a spasm and apparently was passing on. Up to this time my wife and I were alone in our work for her in Christian Science.

One afternoon I was in the backyard having my hair cleansed with gasoline, some of which seeped into one ear, causing much distress. I went into the house to get some cotton to put into my ear to prevent any more trouble of that kind.

In the year 1909 I attended my first Christian Science service. I was led to look into this teaching because of the harmony I saw it had brought into the lives of some friends.

With sincere gratitude to God for giving us a knowledge of the Christ, Truth, through Christian Science, I am sending my testimony, in the hope that it may prove helpful to others. The statement that "man's extremity is God's opportunity," proved to be a correct statement in my case.