Testimonies of Healing

I wish to say that the healing of my mother is correct as stated. I had never known her to be well, and a great deal of the time she was in such a condition that she had to stay in bed.

From my childhood I had known little but sickness and doctors. Finally a painful condition of ulcers and catarrhal trouble from which I had suffered for five years became very serious and I was warned of a malignant growth if I neglected treatment.

I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. For ten years I had been troubled with neuritis of left arm also of left leg, the average shrinkage of the latter being, from foot to body, one and one half inches, the ankle becoming so weak that at times it was kept in adhesive cast.

Thinking that my experience, when first really depending upon Christian Science, might be of some help to a beginner I am writing the following. I had been treated in Christian Science successfully many times by my aunt, but finally she gave me to understand that the time had come for me to work for myself.

I had my first healing in Christian Science in February of 1914, and since then have had many proofs of the great truth that all pain is purely mental, caused by a belief in an existence apart from God. I was healed of severe nausea during pregnancy, and when I was later delivered of twins it was almost entirely without pain.

In the fall of 1914 I was stricken with what the doctors called heart trouble. After doctoring a while and getting worse, I tried to use Christian Science and medicine together; but this failed to do any good.

It has come to me very clearly that if one is to "owe no man," it will be necessary to know a higher meaning than that we are just to pay our financial and social obligations. I have been thinking of the debt of gratitude I owe to God, to the Way-shower, Christ Jesus, and to our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for giving to the world the truth which heals all mankind of the multitude of ills, discords, and inharmonies to which the world is in bondage.

I know that every Christian Scientist is grateful for every testimony of healing. I have enjoyed the experiences of others so much and they have been such a help to me, that I also desire to glorify God by telling of some of the blessings I have received since taking up the study of Christian Science.

When Christian Science was first brought to my notice some twelve years ago, I was not looking for any particular physical healing, but it was not long before I was able to apply its glorious teaching to minor physical defects that were quickly overcome. Being a son of the manse, I was, as one might say, brought up in the faith, and although I had taken an active part in ordinary church work of the old faith, including Sunday school, social reform, and temperance, I was not satisfied; nor indeed had I a reason for the faith that was in me.

Since hearing of Christian Science three years ago, I have been instantly healed of appendicitis with the help of a friend, a practitioner not being available at the time, also of numerous other ills, including a serious condition of the eyes. I was wearing three pairs of glasses when I entered Christian Science, and was confronted with possible blindness.