Testimonies of Healing

So sincere was my desire to find the truth when I started to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy that I was healed of acute neuralgia after reading the Preface.

Again and again we are admonished in the Psalms, "Praise ye the Lord," and to obey the admonition because it, opens our eyes to God's great goodness and ever available love. Even as a child I desired to understand something more about our life here with its complexities and contradictions, but before I left school I had begun to doubt the truth of the Bible teachings, as there seemed so much evidence to contradict them.

I have been in Science over six years and I would like to give my experience so that some one may benefit thereby. To begin with, all my bad habits—the use of profane language, drinking, and even the desire for tobacco, which I had told my wife nothing could make me give up—left me.

Whenever I stop to recall all the blessings which I possess of health, wholeness, and harmony, it is to feel inexpressibly grateful to Christian Science and its demonstrable teaching of man's right relation to God, because before I knew of Christian Science I had none of these things. My health had been bad for a number of years, lapsing occasionally into periods of actual invalidism, and I grew out of boyhood under the verdict of orthodox medicine that I must always expect to live a life of very restricted activity and devoid of all strenuous exertion and extremes of climate.

It is with deep gratitude for Christian Science that I am prompted to give this testimony of its healing efficacy. I had suffered for many years from stomach trouble, which various doctors and specialists diagnosed as gallstones, floating kidneys, ulcers of the stomach, et cetera.

I had thought I did not believe in Christian Science, but when I took it up, over four years ago, it was the last hope. I did not want any one to see me go into the practitioner's office, and it seemed as though they would never open the door so that I could get out of sight, but the next day when I went I wanted everybody to ask me where I was going.

From earliest childhood I had understood very little about God and my relation to Him, and really took no interest in the subject. As the years passed I came to believe myself an infidel, and a great admirer of Ingersoll.

Christian Science has so changed my life that when I look back on what I went through without it I am truly grateful to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and to others who have so lovingly helped me.

When Christian Science first came to me I was under a great mental strain. I could not, it seemed, see a ray of light.

It sometimes takes a complete getting away from one's accustomed surroundings to give one a fuller realization of what the study of Christian Science means. Lately, during a journey by land and water, I have seen more fully the advantage of an understanding of an omnipotent and omnipresent God.