Testimonies of Healing
It is nearly nineteen years since I first turned to Christian Science for help, in a time of great need. I can never be grateful enough that I was led to take this step.
I began to read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, after several years of bad health, and the depressing circumstances succeeding five operations of a serious nature. For one period of ten months my diet had consisted of patent food and jelly; and for another period of twenty months a stomach pump was in daily use.
I can never be grateful enough for Christian Science; for it came to me at a time when everything seemed dark, and all earthly hopes had fled. Our only child, a little daughter, was given up by two doctors to die of cholera infantum.
One night I awakened with intense suffering. I worked, as Christian Science teaches us, for myself until morning; while I grew no worse, I felt no better.
Christian Science was first presented to me at a time when I was weary and heavy-laden with worry over the physical condition of a member of my family. I was invited to attend a Wednesday evening service in the Christian Science church: and, like one grasping at a straw in his extremity, I was ready and willing to turn to anything that offered relief.
With a deep sense of gratitude to God and to Mrs. Eddy, I should like to testify to the great blessings which the teachings of Christian Science have brought to my family and me.
All through childhood and young girlhood I was bothered with kidney trouble. Every kind of remedy we heard of we tried,—all to no avail.
It is fifteen years this spring since I began the study of Christian Science. During that winter I had had a severe attack of grippe, which had left me in what seemed to be a very weakened condition and with a cough which grew steadily worse.
My heart overflows with gratitude and love to God and to our faithful Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for the blessings I have received through an understanding of God as Love, made possible by the truth, as revealed and demonstrated in Christian Science.
When first I heard of Christian Science I was very ill and very unhappy. I had been suffering from an internal trouble for years.