
Testimonies of Healing
Gratefully and gladly I bear witness to the fact that the Word of God heals the sick, and that it is the Word of God alone which does this work. In the midst of a very busy life, being interested in many things that are humanly called good, I broke down with what the physicians called a lack—a lack of red blood, or anæmia—and they said it was necessary to be built up.
I wish to express my gratitude for the innumerable blessings and healings that have come to me and to my family, through Christian Science. I am always especially grateful when [ think of the health, hope, and freedom from fear which even a little understanding of Christian Science brings to an inexperienced mother of little children, it was when our three older children were quite small that Christian Science was first brought to my attention.
In December, 1915, my little grandson, two and a half years old, was very ill. A physician was called and he pronounced it a bad case of diphtheria and membranous croup; therefore, a second physician was called.
Any one who has experienced the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science, usually finds it hard to express in words the gratitude that follows such a blessing. It has been said that "man's extremity is God's opportunity.
I would like to prove my love and gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me by sending this testimony of healing. I had not known in years what it was to experience freedom from pain or sickness two days in succession.
As a member of The Mother Church, and First Reader in our local Christian Science Society. I wish to confirm the testimony of healing submitted to you by my mother.
Christian Science has brought me so many blessings that it is difficult to know where to begin in enumerating them. It is more than twenty years since I first heard of this truth and turned to it with a faint hope of finding the physical healing which I greatly needed.
To help others as well as myself, I wish to relate some of the good received during the past thirty-two years. All I am or have is due to the study and practice of the truths learned from the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
I have had many proofs of the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science. Before I knew much about the subject a serious skin disease developed on my hands.
In February of 1918. I was being treated for sinus trouble by one of the most skillful specialists in Cleveland.