Testimonies of Healing

It is now many years since I first became seriously interested in the study of Christian Science. I was not in need of physical healing at that time but was anxious to do all I could to help a dear sister regain her health.

I have so often been helped by the testimonies given in the Journal and Sentinel that I send mine hoping that it may be a help to others. It is many years since I heard, through a friend, of Christian Science, and was asked to read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

I have long been desirous of expressing my gratitude for the many blessings bestowed upon me and upon my family through the study and application of Christian Science. Many beautiful healings have been experienced, and much intense suffering has been alleviated through the patient work of loving practitioners.

Christian Science has been of the greatest help to me ever since I began studying it several years ago, following the healing of a dislocated jaw. This condition had been the cause of much inconvenience and some pain for quite a time.

There is so much to acknowledge in the fullness of the reward that has come to me and mine in the years we have been studying Christian Science that it is only possible to mention a few of the blessings in one testimony. I first heard of Christian Science when a student in a conservatory of music, but as the one who had spoken to me of it was not a follower of its teachings its verity did not then come to me.

When I first began the study of Christian Science J was a physical wreck, for I had been suffering from gallstones, dyspepsia, appendicitis, and bowel trouble for many years. I had tried almost every material remedy but without receiving any help.

It is with deep gratitude that I express my appreciation of what Christian Science has done for me. I took up the study several years ago since which time the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, have been my constant companions advising, governing, and comforting me.

For many years I suffered from severe cramps for which material means of relief had been tried in vain. Through the interest of a loving friend I was led to take up the study of Christian Science and had treatment.

I did not come into Christian Science for physical healing, but because I had always been searching for a demonstrable understanding of God. The teachings of the church in which I had been brought up did not appeal to me as I was not of a religious turn of mind, in the ordinarily accepted sense of the term; but beauty in nature, in music, in poetry, always seemed to point to a great invisible Something from whence that beauty emanated, and which I felt must be God, although it seemed impossible to apprehend or grasp it in any way.

On page 3 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "Gratitude is much more than a verbal expression of thanks.