Testimonies of Healing

When I first heard of Christian Science the reading of the testimonies published in Le Héraut immediately awakened my interest. I procured Mrs.

Christian Science came to me in the darkest moment of my life when everything seemed to be in a state of chaos, and mortal sense suggested that I would either pass away or lose my reason, and indeed the former seemed preferable, and self-destruction was contemplated. It was at this point that I consented to Christian Science treatment.

The benefits I have received from Christian Science are so manifold that I feel it is my duty to add my testimony to the great wealth of those given weekly and monthly in the Sentinel and Journal, and from which I have reaped such untold blessings. I have gained health, happiness, and success through the study of Christian Science, which was taken up "when all material streams" had dried and when every remnant of a belief in God had been abandoned.

A few years ago I was taken ill with pneumonia. I may say that I had been in the liquor business for twenty-five years; not that I am proud of it, but nevertheless that was the business I was in.

Some time ago I was saved from what might have been a fatal accident through the protecting power of God, as understood through the teaching of Christian Science. I was driving in a taxi with two friends, and was seated with my back to the driver.

Well do I remember the delight with which I habitually attacked a new set of arithmetic examples during my school days, once the teacher had given the explanation necessary to establish in my thought the rule by which to work out the solutions. With the rule at my command, no problem of the set could make me doubt my ability to arrive at the correct answer, provided always that I did my part by way of making correct application of the rule involved.

I wish to express my gratitude with my daughter for the good that has come to us through the study of Christian Science. The healing of burns, which she testifies to, is but one instance of the help she has had both in school and out.

It has long been my desire to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for the many blessings which I have received through its teachings. Just now, when each day brings more and more of spiritual understanding and unfoldment, seems the right time to share with others my joyful gratitude.

I feel that I should acknowledge some of the many blessings that are mine since! began the study of Christian Science several years ago. My first healing was of a heavy, dull pain from which I had suffered ever since undergoing an operation some ten years previously.

Several years ago I first opened my heart to receive the blessings of Christian Science, and the spirit of the Christ indeed came in to sup with me. Many times I had turned a deaf ear to the call, saying, "I am reverent, but not religious: and I cannot make myself believe in creeds and such things.