Testimonies of Healing

I have had so much help and comfort from reading the testimonies of others in the Journal and Sentinel that I should like to add my mite of gratitude for all the blessings which have come to me through the study of Christian Science, the more so as I am at present living away from any Christian Science church or society and have not the opportunity of expressing my gratitude at the Wednesday evening meetings. I am especially grateful for the spiritual uplift and the protection which I have experienced, and for the healing of influenza, and other ills which at one time embittered my life.

When I first became interested in Christian Science it was not because I thought I wanted physical healing but because I wanted a more practical religion and a better understanding of God, both for myself and my young children; but very soon I had proofs of physical healing. I had worn glasses since I was a young girl, for a very bad form of what was believed to be inherited astigmatism.

I have somewhere read, "Our only excuse for living is that we may glorify God. " Now I desire to glorify God and to bear witness to the power of Truth (which is God) by testifying to the wonderful healings which have come to me through reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, in conjunction with the Bible.

" Divine Love ," says Mrs. Eddy, "always has met and always will meet every human need" (Science and Health, p.

I am grateful to God, to Christ Jesus the Way-shower, and to Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, for the revelation of the glorious truth which makes free.

The testimonies in our periodicals are always so helpful to me that I feel it is not only a duty but a great privilege to add mine, hoping some one may be benefited by reading it as I have been by reading those of others. Over a year ago I turned to Christian Science for physical healing after all material means had failed.

For years there seemed to be a void in my life. Until I was old enough to think for myself, I had accompanied my mother to church; but as I grew older and read the Bible and understood it better, I found that I did not enjoy the services and after a while I refused to attend but tried to obey the instructions of Christ Jesus as given in Matthew, "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

I am sending this testimony hoping it will help some one to see the truth. Christian Science has been a blessing to me, for it has taught me to know God as Love, and to love and not to fear Him.

It is with sincere gratitude for the many blessings Christian Science has brought to me that I give this testimony. Nearly two years ago I had scarlet fever, and the doctor did not seem to help me.

I wish to tell of what Christian Science has done for me. I had a regular passion for tobacco, in the pipe and cigars, and especially for chewing.