Testimonies of Healing
I turned to Christian Science when one physician after another had told me that one very dear to me could never get well, that she might live for an indefinite length of time but it would be an existence of constant pain, so severe that drugs must continually be used to control it. I saw this dear one freed from these agonizing attacks through Christian Science.
About fifteen years ago, when I became interested in Christian Science, I was attacked with inflammatory rheumatism. After trying for nearly a week to help myself with the little I knew of this teaching, I went to see a practitioner, as the condition was getting worse, and in one treatment was instantaneously healed.
It was in April, 1911, that I first heard of Christian Science, at a time when I was lying sick in bed and did not know what to do to obtain relief. My nerves were so greatly affected that I was hardly able to stand upright.
About fifteen years ago we were living quite near the Christian Science church in this city, so a friend asked me if I would like to go to a Wednesday evening meeting, and I said I would; but as she was not a Scientist I put off going from time to time. When spring came we moved away, and I thought no more of it.
Some time ago while at work in a factory, I operated a large planer, which was driven by a heavy belt traveling at the rate of over sixty-six thousand inches a minute. One day when I was passing under this belt it broke, striking me in the head and face and rendering me unconscious.
I wish to add my testimony evidencing God's allness and the nothingness of error. I had what the doctors called gastric ulcers of the intestines and bowels, and after having two very severe hemorrhages was left a complete wreck.
Nearly six years ago I began to read Christian Science literature purely out of curiosity. I never dreamed of the good it was to pour into my life as the beauty of its teaching unfolded.
It is indeed a great privilege to tell of the blessings Christian Science has brought to me. While in a hospital for those suffering from incipient tuberculosis I was invited to attend the Christian Science services, which were being held in a home near by, and thinking it a good plan to spend a long Sunday afternoon away from the sickness about me and most of all to hear some good music, I went.
When I first heard of Christian Science I loved the truth it teaches. The Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," with the Christian Science literature, have become my daily study.
My sincere gratitude for the many healings received through Christian Science impels me to write this testimony. I have overcome headaches and intense nervous trouble in its many forms, through the reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.