Testimonies of Healing
A short time before Mrs. Eddy ordained the Bible and ''Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" to be the pastor of the Christian Science church, a minister came to the place where I then lived and preached what he at first called "the truth.
The past three years, during which time I have earnestly studied Christian Science, have been the happiest of my life. I have found this truth to be of practical value, a demonstrable religion, indeed "a very present help in trouble.
It is with a desire to encourage others to seek this healing and saving truth, which brings such peace, health, and happiness, that I offer this testimony. We have had many proofs of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God since we took up the study of Christian Science.
I am deeply grateful for all that Christian Science has done for me. In 1910 I commenced to suffer from a severe stomach disorder and other internal troubles.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I tell briefly of my coming into Christian Science. Jesus said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Christian Science has indeed proved an efficacious remedy in many ways. Since becoming interested in its teachings I have been healed of a number of physical ills, among which was a goiter that to mortal sense was incurable.
Eleven years have passed since my first healing in Christian Science. I was greatly in need of help, both mentally and physically, and sought a practitioner to be treated for an intestinal trouble of long standing.
It is almost seven years since I first became interested in Christian Science, when at the home of my mother and stepfather. They had been students of this Science for six years, and it was the change in their lives that this religion had brought about which enabled me to see the truth of its teachings.
In February, 1917, I lay prostrate in bed, unable to serve my family in any way, and believing that I had months of misery ahead of me, remembering two former unhappy periods before childbirth. This time things seemed worse than ever, and my physician told me he could do nothing to relieve me, except to prescribe two injections a day for a serious bowel condition.
I took up the study of Christian Science in May, 1917, for the healing of so-called mucous colitis, from which I had suffered for a long time. When I decided to inquire into this teaching I had nothing but prejudice against it.