Testimonies of Healing

I wish to testify to healing through Christian Science from an acute attack of so-called ptomaine poisoning. One day I was taken suddenly ill with extreme nausea, without any warning.

About six or seven years ago through a friend I was given some Christian Science literature, among which was a copy or copies of the Sentinel . I read there testimonies of healing through Christian Science which seemed to me very remarkable, and I saw also that the other articles in the magazines were very ably written and were evidently the work of sane, intelligent, thinking human beings; and so I concluded that these testimonies must be true.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I wish to express my appreciation for Christian Science healing. I have depended on its sustaining power for several years, and in no demand has it failed me.

In the spring of 1900 I visited a friend in New Jersey, and while there was seized with an acute pain, due to a growth in the breast which had for two years caused me much suffering and inconvenience, as I was at times unable to use my arm. On this particular day fear and despair seemed to overwhelm me.

At one time it became necessary for me to change completely my line of work and place of living. After beginning my new work, and while living among total strangers, I became, to material sense, very ill.

I hope my testimony may help some one else as testimonies related by others have aided me in my search for truth and light. In 1893 the doctors declared I must undergo an operation for internal tumor.

In the second chapter of I Peter we read, "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. " These words seem to urge me to give the following testimony.

Once , when living in a city of one of our southern states, I was stricken with what was locally called swamp fever. It was at a time when Christian Science was hardly known there, and there were no Christian Science practitioners in the city.

It is now over six years since I was afflicted with a severe cough which my physician informed me could not be cured in this climate—my condition could not stand another winter here. I had occasion to go to Chicago, and on my return I stopped off in Detroit to visit an old friend who was a Christian Science practitioner in whom I had every confidence.

In the spring of 1917 my second oldest daughter developed what the family physician diagnosed as an attack of kidney trouble, or Bright's disease. The little girl having had a similar attack the year before, and the family physician offering no hope of a permanent cure, my wife and I decided to seek help through Christian Science.