Testimonies of Healing

Some years ago, when I first became interested in Christian Science, I took my little boy to have treatment. From his birth he had been a most delicate child always under the doctor's care, and the doctors had little hope of his ever growing up; they told me that he had no digestive faculties.

For about three years I had been suffering from attacks of rheumatism, accompanied by fever and followed by a complication of heart, stomach, and foot trouble (named fallen arches by specialists). Well-known physicians gave me little encouragement that I could be restored to health, but warned me that I would be liable to experience renewed and more severe attacks.

"O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. " It is with a grateful heart that I praise God for His wonderful works unto His children.

I have long felt a desire to express my gratitude for the blessings which Christian Science has brought into my life and that of my family. For fifteen years I suffered from heart trouble, had consulted many physicians, and been an inmate of different sanatoriums, but without experiencing healing.

After having typhoid fever about four years ago, I was left with what the doctors and nurses claimed was the formation of gallstones. As I was always fearing the operation which the doctors said was the only way of relief from this suffering I was on the lookout for some other curative system which would help me to regain my health.

I feel I can never be grateful enough for having been healed of the morbid habit of cigarette smoking, which I indulged for fifteen years, during nine of which I smoked at the rate of fifty cigarettes a day. Having neglected nourishing food I was brought down in health to a living skeleton and in March, 1918, I thought I could not possibly live another week, I felt so ill and weak.

Through the study and demonstration of Christian Science, some of the ills, which belief in heredity handed down as family traditions, have in my experience gradually come to the surface, only to be destroyed. Especially severe was the experience of shingles.

I have so often been encouraged by the testimonies in the Journal and Sentinel that I feel it a duty as well as a joy to send one regarding the wonderful healing of my young daughter. During the summer vacation, while running in the garden, she fell and injured her knee severely.

My reasons for gratitude to God for Christian Science are numerous and continuously present, for through Christian Science I have learned how to think and how to live. I can and do recommend Christian Science as practical, everyday religion for practical, everyday men and women.

The fruits of our labor, as expressed through the testimonies given in the Christian Science periodicals, have often inspired me to renewed and more persistent effort, and it is in deep appreciation of this valuable help received that I give this testimony. Several years' study of Christian Science has resulted in the overcoming of sick headaches, sore throats, and many minor illnesses, but one healing seems to stand out as the time when mere faith yielded to spiritual understanding.