Testimonies of Healing
In 1911, after I had been ill for months, unable to eat, or to retain even a drink of water, or to help myself in any way, two physicians declared my case hopeless unless I consented to an operation. At this time there was in our home a friend who had been healed in Christian Science and had at times presented this truth to me.
I first attended a Christian Science service in August, 1912. After several years' invalidism I had been gradually turning to God, convinced that "it is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.
Having suffered much from weak arches and bunions I made an appointment with a surgeon for an operation on my feet, but three days before this was to be performed I was persuaded to try Christian Science. This resulted in a quick healing and a wonderful spiritual uplift.
About five years ago I first became interested in Christian Science. I was in perfect health but was suffering mental unrest, and this burden was not lifted till I understood God as revealed in Science and Health.
It was not until all other means of help were found wanting, that I consented to try Christian Science. A minor and a so-called dangerous operation had left me better for a short time only.
Before coming into Christian Science I hardly ever knew what it was to be free from bilious headache and bowel trouble, for which I took medicine daily for some fifteen years. It is about four years since I began the study of Christian Science and during that time we have not had medicine of any kind in the house, but have relied wholly on the truth.
From childhood I was constantly under the doctors' care. After an attack of influenza and eight months spent in a sanatorium, I passed through the next winter worse than ever before.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude for what Christian Science has done and is doing for me and mine that I write this testimony. I was an invalid for over twenty-five years.
The first reading of the chapter on Prayer in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" confirmed beyond doubt my opinion of what man's relation to God should be, for while I had never prayed as Mrs. Eddy teaches us to pray, yet I had a firm conviction that God was ever present and there was a way by which man could reach the divine ear.
On reading in Psalms, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy," I realized it was time that my gratitude and love for Christian Science were expressed; for it has proved to me that it is the truth that heals both sickness and sin. I was brought up in a strict orthodox church, but later on drifted away from things religious and even ceased to pray, for I could not honestly say, "Thy will be done.