Testimonies of Healing

For several years I was a semi-invalid, and during a period of four years did not have a natural movement of the bowels. I had almost constant headaches with frequent severe attacks which lasted two or three days.

It is with sincere and heartfelt gratitude that I send this testimony of what Christian Science has done for me. When it came to me about seven years ago, I was physically ill, and mentally despondent and discouraged.

During the eight years that I have been interested in Christian Science I have been the recipient of many, many blessings. Colds, burns, a rash, trouble with my teeth, and headaches have been destroyed by Truth.

I have received so much help from reading the testimonies in the Sentinels and Journals that I want to send mine, hoping it will benefit others as I have been benefited. I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical healing.

I want to express my gratitude for God's great blessing, Christian Science, and for what it has done for me and mine. I have been completely healed of consumption of the bones, and have gained in weight and strength.

I desire to give my testimony in order that God may be glorified, that those seeking Christian Science may be strengthened, and that I may express my gratitude to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered the divine law of being and founded a church, in the midst of "a wicked and perverse generation," to shelter and protect those who are striving to walk in the footsteps of the Master, Christ Jesus. For many years I seldom knew a day without pain.

The testimonies of others have been of so much help to me that I wish to add mine, hoping some other seeker after Truth may be encouraged as I have been. About six years ago life seemed hopeless.

With sincere gratitude I send this acknowledgment of the benefits received from Christian Science. About sixteen years ago I was lent a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which I commenced reading merely to satisfy my curiosity as to its teaching.

It is with gratitude I send my testimony in the hope that it may encourage any one whose healing may be slow. About the year 1903 I became ill and an inmate of a hospital, where I underwent an operation for what was diagnosed as abscess of the loin; later on, an operation was performed at home for a diseased rib.

It is with deep gratitude for Christian Science that I am sending in my testimony that it may help others as others have helped me. Two years ago I took up the study of Christian Science, not because I cared so much for it, as I had heard about it since I was a little girl, and never thought there was any good in it; but I also had been sick since a little girl,—never strong like other children,—and after I grew up was never strong or well, and was growing worse all the time.