Testimonies of Healing

As I look back over the years, with deepest love and gratitude to our beloved Leader, and to all who have aided me in gaining a larger understanding of the Christ, there comes to my consciousness this thought, that I have passed through three stages of gratitude,—first, for my own healing; second, for the help that I have been able to give to those near to me; and last, for that understanding which enables me to help all mankind. My besetting weakness was drink.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I give my testimony for the many blessings that have come into my life since I took up the study of Christian Science, six years ago. My first healing was of stomach and bowel trouble of twenty years' standing.

Many years ago, the beautiful teaching of Christian Science was brought to my notice by a dear friend. I found it was the truth for which I had long been seeking.

Just a year ago now, I was suffering from what the attending physician diagnosed as diphtheria. I did not seem to recover as was expected; so in January I underwent an operation on my throat, and in March a very serious operation on both ears.

From infancy until the age of four years, my youngest child had not known a well day or gone without medicine. From the time she was six months old, the taking of food would often throw her into convulsions.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I hereby lovingly bear witness to the healing power of Christian Science. During the last twelve years I have received many healings, both mental and physical, and should like to relate one of the healings which proved to me, and to others who witnessed it, that "with God all things are possible.

Before accepting Christian Science, I was a constant sufferer from what physicians named ulceration of the stomach; and for several years I was under the constant care of the very best specialists. I was assured I could not be healed; but that I could, while I lived, enjoy comparative comfort, provided I strictly obeyed the rules prescribed by the doctor.

Through a complication of sad circumstances my happy girlhood, abounding in all things needful, seemed to end abruptly in a tragedy of heartaches, lack, and frailty. The future held no hope, although I had sought help of many ministers and physicians.

It is now over eighteen years since Christian Science was first brought to my notice, and I esteem it a privilege to have, through the columns of The Christian Science Journal, the opportunity of expressing my sincere gratitude for the many blessings I have received through the revelation of Truth as given to the world in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I did not begin the study with a view to physical healing, as at the moment I was not specially in need of help in that direction; but it was explained to me that sin, sickness, and discord of every kind were only false beliefs due to lack of spiritual understanding, and I at once saw that the way of salvation lay in learning the truth about God and His creation.

Christian Science came to the notice of my parents when I was only four years of age; and from that time until now I have had only Christian Science treatment, and have never known any other religion. Four years ago I had what is called measles.