Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science was presented to me at a time when I was suffering from melancholia and an extreme case of anæmia. I was instantaneously healed of a desire to die, by the reading of Science and Health, where Mrs.

I wish to express through the columns of the Sentinel or Journal my gratitude for what Christian Science has done and is doing for me and for the whole world. In the five years that I have been interested it has met every need.

With deep thankfulness to God I wish to give a brief testimony of a healing received through Christian Science. My eyes began to trouble me several years ago and the pain became more severe as time went on.

As the testimonies have always meant so much to me, I should like to add mine, hoping that it may help some one. At the time of our first healing, over twelve years ago we knew absolutely nothing about Christian Science.

Words fail to express my heartfelt gratitude for Christian Science. Two years ago I was condemned by four London specialists and two doctors to a life of almost chronic invalidism.

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.

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.