Testimonies of Healing

When the knowledge of Christian Science came to me, I was feeling that the difficulties of life were too great. I seemed to have more troubles than anybody I knew.

After many years of treatment by prominent nerve specialists in this country and Europe, going from place to place seeking relief from climate for a so-called serious nerve trouble, and finding only temporary help, I became interested in Christian Science, and was completely healed, after a nervous collapse which confined me to bed many months. Other complaints are, one after another, yielding to the power of Truth, as I more earnestly work to correct old habits of thought, to recognize my own responsibility, and to read and study the Bible, together with our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and other works by Mary Baker Eddy.

About a year ago I contracted one of the numerous forms of skin disease commonly known as "itch. " I tried various medical remedies; but as nothing seemed to give relief, I finally wrote my sister, a Christian Scientist, asking her if she thought Science could help me.

When my daughter was nine months old, physicians gave up her case, and a Christian Science treatment healed her in an hour. My first test came when I remembered I had been warned by the physicians against giving her milk, which, it was said, would prove fatal.

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 570 ), writes, "Those ready for the blessing you impart will give thanks.

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.

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.

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.