
Testimonies of Healing
Impelled by a pure desire to express my gratitude for the many benefits derived from the study and application of what I have gained through studying Christian Science, I send this testimony. I have been healed morally and I have been healed of poverty.
It is with gratitude to God and deep appreciation of Mrs. Eddy that I add my testimony of benefits received through Christian Science.
About four years ago our eldest son was taken suddenly ill while preparing for school. The condition was such that I became greatly alarmed and called in our family physician.
My attention was first attracted to Christian Science by seeing my wife healed in a few hours of a severe attack of pneumonia. A practitioner was called over the long-distance telephone in the evening, and in a short time my wife was better, and by morning she was perfectly free from every symptom.
Christian Science has brought me many blessings since I turned to it several years ago. It appealed to me because it satisfied a longing for spirituality and it was for this reason that I took up the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
I am very glad to have this opportunity to bear testimony to the healing power of Christian Science. For several years I suffered from indigestion and stomach trouble.
In the one hundred and third psalm we read, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. " Christian Science is the greatest benefit or blessing that ever came into my experience.
About two years ago, in answer to inquiries sent to a magazine which had published several articles on Christian Science, I received from the Christian Science reading room several pamphlets and a copy of Le Héraut de Christian Science. At that time I was steeped in a wholly material education and was trying to understand the cause or origin and effects of matter, without, however, finding any logical conclusion to the so-called scientific hypotheses advanced.
Well knowing that all the help that I have experienced through Christian Science is the omniactivity of Mind expressed, hence wholly impersonal, I send this testimony, hoping that it may help some one else as I have been helped countless times, by the expressions of gratitude through our periodicals. Before investigating the subject of Christian Science, I was a victim of a severe form of intestinal indigestion, and had suffered from this difficulty for years, as well as from throat trouble that I had been subject to from childhood.
Words cannot express my gratitude for the blessings and the help I have received through Christian Science. I have been healed of a severe throat trouble, with loss of voice, resulting from a cold.