Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science has brought to me health and happiness. Six and a half years ago I was a very sick man.

It is now many years since I first heard of Christian Science. It came to me at a time when I was very dissatisfied with the teachings of my own church, and it appealed to me at once as something really practical and helpful for everyday living.

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science. Thirteen years ago, I first turned to it for help.

After living on the prairies several years, acquiring what I thought were manly habits, and two years in the army, undergoing months of campaigning in the Old World, surrounded by hardships, dangers, and vice, I returned to the United States a wreck, physically and mentally, I had become an incessant cigarette smoker, and, as was common with soldiers, drank to excess on most occasions. As a result of this, my morals were far from what they should have been.

Some years ago, purely out of curiosity I attended a Christian Science Wednesday evening meeting, and, although the Christian Science teaching seemed to me too idealistic and Utopian to be practical, I found myself continuing to attend the Wednesday evening meetings. Then a Sunday service was visited; also I procured a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and read and pondered it every spare moment until I had finished the book.

God is my strength and my life, an ever present help in time of trouble. This was not realized by me until I learned it through the understanding of Truth, as taught by Christian Science.

I desire to express my gratitude for Christian Science, and for the peace and happiness that have come into my experience through a better understanding of God as Life, Truth, and Love. Nine years ago I was in a state of semi-invalidism, under the constant care of physicians, who could give me only temporary relief, and no hope of my being any stronger.

It is with a great sense of gratitude to God and our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, that I am writing this testimony of many physical healings following an improved belief in, and a more spiritual understanding of, the allness of God and man's relationship to divine Principle, God. I am grateful for the privilege of giving to the world, through the pages of our periodicals, a glimpse of some of the blessings received by the study of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

Many years ago, three members of our family developed tuberculosis in varying forms. The illness of one followed rather closely upon the other, until sorrow, despair, and hopelessness were expressed on every side.

May the sufferer who reads the story of my healing look up with new hope, for the same light and health and joy which came to me from the outstretched arms of Christian Science await him. From a child I was constantly under medical treatment.