Testimonies of Healing

When a child I had a very severe case of diphtheria, and from that time on I was subject to throat trouble. Never a winter passed that I did not have one or more attacks of sore throat, and this difficulty continued a number of years after I became interested in Christian Science.

Having so often been helped by the Christian Science periodicals, I should like to express through them my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. For the last ten years Christian Science has been my remedy for every ill, and by applying the understanding of divine Principle every difficulty has been overcome and every need supplied.

Christian Science came to me in the year 1917. In July of that year I had been placed on the operating table for a third operation.

Justly would I deserve to be classed with the nine lepers who were healed by the Master if I failed to return thanks for the wonderful benefits which have come to me through the healing efficacy of Christian Science. Three times in less than three years I was rendered unconscious through heart disease.

I first heard of Christian Science eight years ago, through a lady who recommended that my mother try it for heart trouble. My mother was unable to walk upstairs, and we always had to have a ground floor bedroom for her, but with the help of a practitioner she was perfectly healed, and is now in good health.

I have received so much benefit from the testimonies in the Sentinel and Journal that I want to add mine. Divine Love has met my every need.

Before taking up the study of Christian Science I had a very confused concept of God. I was very much puzzled by passages in the Bible which seemed to describe God as subject to change, at one time blessing and at another time turning from His people, and I thought that discord was the result of God turning away from us.

My heart is overflowing with gratitude to God for His goodness. When the desire first came to me to read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, there seemed to be a lack of supply.

I began the study of Christian Science about nine years ago, when I had help from a practitioner and was healed of a chronic bowel trouble. This trouble returned four times, but was met each time through Christian Science, and was overcome twice through my own understanding of this Science.

As the testimonies in the Sentinel and Journal have been a great help to me during the last few years I send mine in the hope that it may also help others. I became interested in Christian Science in the spring of 1915 upon my arrival in England from India, but did not buy "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy until the autumn of 1916, and then only found time to read it occasionally, but I loved it at once, especially the chapter, "Atonement and Eucharist.