Testimonies of Healing

In loving gratitude to God for this beautiful truth, I am giving this testimony. I have been healed of a very severe case of pneumonia through Christian Science.

The testimonies of others have so often given me fresh inspiration and courage, have so often helped me to stop and count my own blessings, that I wish to express gratitude for a few of the many blessings Christian Science has brought to me. Among the physical healings which have taken place in our family since taking up the study of Christian Science, about five years ago, are those of influenza, chronic constipation, cuts, burns, sprains, several so-called children's diseases, and many, many others.

That Jesus' precepts of nineteen hundred years ago are being successfully practiced to-day was recently proved to me by the demonstration over typhoid, double pneumonia. The disease assumed its worst form; and would probably have proved fatal under medical treatment.

It is with joy and gratitude that I testify to what Christian Science has done for me. I was an extremely nervous child, so much so that I was unable to attend the public schools; and as this was considered an evidence of ill health, I was almost constantly under the care of a physician.

Four years ago, after I had tried different ways and means to be relieved from bodily suffering, a faithful friend called my attention to the teaching of Christian Science. After some opposition I decided to try it, with the thought that if this teaching were helpful, it was meant for me as well as for others; if it did not afford any help, I could put it aside again— but that I would find out and be convinced.

The testimonies I have read in the various Christian Science periodicals have been so wonderfully helpful to me that in gratitude I feel I should like to add mine, hoping it may encourage some one else struggling out of the bondage of the flesh, Looking back on the years of misery and suffering which were my lot before I was able to accept the teachings of Christian Science, I know it would be impossible for me ever to express the debt of gratitude I owe to our revered Leader for the purity of her life and the unselfed love which enabled her to reveal Truth to this age. Left an orphan at an early age, I was already a constant sufferer from bilious headaches; and it was accepted as a perfectly natural thing that I should spend hours, sometimes days, lying in a darkened room.

I am glad to tell of the many blessings and proofs of God's loving care and protection which I have received through Christian Science. It healed me of a so-called incurable disease after medicine had failed.

It is with a feeling of duty, as well as pleasure, that I testify to the healing power of divine Love in Christian Science. For over thirty years I had been a sufferer from asthma, brought on supposedly by a catarrhal condition.

I have long desired to express my gratitude for Christian Science through the columns of our periodicals, in the hope that it may be of help and encouragement to others. For seven years I had been an invalid, unable to care for my home and family, and had been under the care of many physicians, receiving no hope from any of them that I could ever be restored to health.

In giving expression to my deep sense of gratitude for Christian Science, the words of our great Master, Christ Jesus, come to me, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. " Every healing in Christian Science is the fulfillment of that promise; and it was surely in an hour of great need and despair that this truth about God's love for man reached me.