Testimonies of Healing

I wish to express my gratitude for the benefits I have realized through the understanding of Christian Science. It is many years since I began reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, having purchased a copy after hearing Christian Science and Mrs.

Love met my need, my hunger for Truth, many years ago, when I saw the truth about man. I was healed of a serious trouble for which I had been operated upon three times and had "suffered many things of many physicians.

With a deep sense of gratitude I wish to testify to the healing power of Christian Science. Some time ago I was suddenly stricken with meningitis, and for three days was unconscious, during which time a premature birth took place without my knowledge.

Christian Science came to me at a time when I was seriously questioning many of the doctrines of the church of which I had been a member from boyhood. What is usually called a "religious faith" had meant much to me, but in the course of time my thought had become impregnated with many doubts.

I sometimes wonder which of the many blessings I have received since gaining some knowledge of Christian Science, during the last ten or twelve years, I am most grateful for. Perhaps it is for the healing of very severe headaches that began to torture me early in life, being among the earliest recollections of my childhood.

The reading of a testimony in a recent copy of The Christian Science Journal awakened me to my duty, also to my privilege, of testifying to what Christian Science has brought into my life. Christian Science has given me the true concept of God, and if I could testify to nothing more I have found that it is this true concept which enables me to prove that nothing else is but God and His idea.

It is with a heart full of love and gratitude that I am writing this testimony of healing. I was almost a cripple with rheumatism in my hips and feet, but while studying Christian Science in search of another healing the rheumatism disappeared, and I am entirely healed of any thought of it.

Having derived so much benefit from the testimonies of others, I feel that I should send mine to show in a small way my appreciation of all that Christian Science has done for me. Several years ago I was stung by an insect which poisoned me badly.

Several years ago I experienced severe pain in my right leg, making it impossible for me to stand. I tried to lie down on the sofa but was unable to do so and in great pain took up a copy of Der Herold.

I can never express in words the gratitude I feel for all the blessings I have received through Christian Science. I was suffering severely from a belief of blood poisoning all through my body, and when all material remedies failed to relieve me and the doctor said he could do no more for me, a dear friend brought a Christian Science practitioner to my home, and I was healed the same day; in fact, the practitioner came about three o'clock in the afternoon and I arose from my bed and attended to some household duties.