Testimonies of Healing

I think it is a great privilege as well as a duty to testify to the healing efficacy of God's power as taught and demonstrated in Christian Science. Since coming into Christian Science ten years ago I have had many proofs of God's care.

I became interested in Christian Science about nine years ago. From the beginning I received great help from this teaching and felt that I had come into contact with a practical religion.

I desire to express my sincere gratitude for the many blessings that have come to me since I have taken up the study of Christian Science. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, was placed in my hands less than three years ago.

For the past seventeen years Christian Science has been my one and only physician, and during that time it has been proved to me, over and over again, that the truth, as revealed in Christian Science, heals all manner of disease quickly and permanently. A few years ago I seemed obsessed by fear of the prevalent influenza, which finally manifested itself so violently in my own case that it threatened to be fatal.

From my early teens up until the past seven or eight years, I had been troubled with chronic constipation. Every one knows what various other disorders arise from that, mainly chronic appendicitis, from which I suffered over two years.

Seventeen months after a very serious operation I was confined to my bed with what the physicians termed tuberculosis of the bowels and intestines. For five months prior to turning to Christian Science for help I was unable to retain any food, and was thought to be in a very serious condition.

I gratefully subscribe my tribute of gratitude to Christian Science for the many blessings I have received therefrom. About five weeks ago my little boy was taken very suddenly ill, just after being put to bed, with all the symptoms of pneumonia.

It is indeed a great joy to bear testimony to the power of God through the teachings of Christian Science. Exactly seven years ago I had arrived at that condition known as man's extremity, having suffered over a year from acute neurasthenia, and for ten years prior to that suffered for a period in each year from a nervous breakdown.

For more than twenty years I have shared the blessings which Christian Science brings to those who turn to it for help. During these years this truth about God and man in His image and likeness has healed me in times of sickness and comforted me when sorrow and distress have seemed very real.

With a desire to express my gratitude through the channel which our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, provided for that purpose, I embrace the privilege, knowing that in this way it will reach around the world and bear witness to the healing and comforting power of Truth. The peace, happiness, and contentment radiated in the lives of Christian Scientists was what first attracted me to make a search for the teachings of this new-old religion.