Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

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.

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.