Testimonies of Healing

My heart overflows with gratitude for all the blessings and benefits received through Christian Science. I also wish to express gratitude for the marvelous healing of long-standing inflammation of the intestines.

It seems almost impossible to tell what The Christian Science Journal and Sentinel have done for me in the way of unfoldment and spiritual growth since I began the study of Christian Science some four years ago, and especially during the past few months. The understanding of the privilege as well as the responsibility of subscribing to these periodicals established by Mrs.

The traveler in a mountainous country pauses occasionally to look back at the peaks already surmounted. Then, encouraged by the view of what has already been accomplished, he is able to press onward with renewed energy.

Although but a young student of Christian Science, knowing of its healing and beneficent powers for but two years, I have experienced many healings. When first coming into Christian Science I was healed of valvular heart disease for which two physicians claimed there was no cure.

Having been educated in Germany, whose educational system had been planned for the strengthening of autocracy, and suffering from the effects of this false education, I, like the prodigal son, had taken my "portion of goods" and had come to the United States, and there wasted my substance in riotous living; to find myself in sore want, unable to understand the fundamentals of the country, gradually sinking deeper and deeper. I had been trained to think autocracy and consequently could not understand democracy and its institutions.

With gratitude I send in this testimony to the many blessings received since becoming interested in Christian Science. My child came into this world with a good sized birthmark over the right eye, which made me very unhappy.

For a large portion of my younger days I was a great sufferer from nervousness which took a very acute form and caused me much misery. I was in constant fear of people and things, and naturally my physical health was anything but good.

It is nearly seven years since Christian Science was brought to us by a very dear woman who had been in Christian Science for some time. I had been sick practically all my life and was almost constantly under a doctor's care, my greatest difficulty being stomach trouble and extreme nervousness.

I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. Prior to 1905 I was an active member of a denominational church.

My cup surely is running over with blessings, spiritual blessings, therefore I feel it my duty to give out some of my healing experiences, resulting from the study of the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. These words from the Bible have never failed me: "And I say unto you; Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.