
Testimonies of Healing
It has come to me repeatedly of late that I have not been bringing all my tithes into the storehouse of our Father, as I never have written a testimony for our periodicals, and feel quite overwhelmed to think of it when I recount manifold blessings that I have received since coming into this blessed truth, almost eighteen years ago. At that time I was healed in five or six treatments of partial paralysis of the bowels and of hemorrhoids, and my daughter of four months was also healed of bowel trouble.
Nine years ago my first testimony was published in the Journal, and it certainly is time I once more publicly expressed gratitude for a further bountiful unfolding of good. One day a great longing arose to have class instruction, and this promise stood out with startling clearness, "No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
In December, 1917, my wife and I noticed a considerable change in our daughter. From being very lively child, she became sad and silent.
Having received so much good from reading the testimonies of others, it is my earnest desire to add mine, in the hope that it may help some one. Over four years ago as a last resort I turned to Christian Science for help and was healed in one treatment, although I took two more treatments afterwards for general help.
After having been a sufferer for about four years with an internal trouble, I at last turned to Christian Science for help, as material remedies had done me no good. About five months later my baby was born without any of the suffering I had passed through on former occasions.
During the period of eight years in which we have been studying Christian Science, we have had many things to be grateful for. Physically, mentally, and financially it has met every demand.
After reading an article in The Christian Science Journal I realized the necessity of sending in a testimony of the many healings I have received through Christian Science. My first healing took place about four years ago, when I was healed of nervous indigestion of many years' standing.
During the summer of 1917 I was taking a pistol apart, when it discharged and the bullet entered my right hand at the base of the middle finger, passing entirely through. I at once declared the truth and washed the blood from the wound.
It is now about eleven years since I became interested in Christian Science. Previous to that I had been a semi-invalid for many years.
From childhood I sought God and occasionally questioned those belonging to various denominations about Him, but without any satisfaction. In Science and Health ( p.