Testimonies of Healing

When I first purchased the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, it was not in search for or in expectation of any physical healing, but simply to see what Christian Science was all about. I had not finished reading the first chapter, on prayer, before I realized that this was the truth about God and the universe, including man.

My first healing in Christian Science was that of a carbuncle, so called by the doctors. I knew very little about Science, but thought it the best way out of the difficulty.

For twenty-five years I was under medical treatment and was kept on a strict diet, being considered almost an invalid. Among my many ills were asthma, severe headaches, and kidney trouble.

It is a number of years now since Christian Science came to my knowledge and brought about such a transformation in my life. I had been most unhappy for some years.

Some years have come and gone since Christian Science flooded my life with its radiance, and redeemed me from the thought of self-destruction; grief and discouragement had made existence unbearable. The change which came to my consciousness through the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

In Revelation we read, "These are they which came out of great tribulation;" and I have thought how apropos this statement is to the experience of many Christian Scientists, I being one who has come out of the torture of Hades itself. Of one thing I am sure,—if I could be freed through Christian Science, any one can.

Having so often received benefit from reading the testimonies of others, I have often wished to express my gratitude to God and to Mrs. Eddy, for the glorious truth as it is revealed to us in Christian Science, by giving to others my testimony of what Truth has done for me.

In a recent public lecture on Christian Science by a member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, it was explained that when a patient is healed by the application of God's law as revealed in Christian Science, he generally knows that he is healed, that the healing is of God, and he gives to God the glory, with the joy and gratitude which always follow spiritual healing. This part of the lecture brought to me a renewed sense of thankfulness that my first personal experience with Christian Science healing had been unmistakably of that description.

Christian Science has brought to me a number of blessings, for all of which I am very grateful. Through its study I have been enlightened enough to be able to depend upon God, divine Love, for help in every instance.

As a student of Christian Science during the past fifteen years, many-blessings have come to me, many practical proofs of the healing power and ever present care and guidance of divine Love. I was healed of consumption after all material means had failed.