Testimonies of Healing
The daughter of a clergyman and the wife of another, I was an agnostic for thirty years and lived the life of one. Toward the end of these years, troubles, sickness, and consequent heart searchings followed continuously and remorselessly, ending with the biggest trouble of my life.
From childhood J suffered from sick headaches so severely that often friends thought I might pass on. Christian Science healed me of that trouble.
Since childhood I had been sickly and was told my condition was due to heredity. When a young girl I was stricken with typhoid fever, which was followed by great weakness of the stomach and bowels, causing severe suffering.
I want to vouch for the statements of my sister regarding my healing. They are absolutely correct.
One afternoon in March, 1916, while visiting with a friend, conversation turned to Christian Science, and finally she offered me her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, which I gladly accepted, curious to know what was in it yet positive that I did not want it as a religion.
It has been the desire of our family for three years past to express our gratitude for the beautiful and perfect healing of my brother. While he was working on a barbed wire machine in one of our large factories, his leg was caught by a twisted wire and drawn into the machine to his thigh before he was able to shut off the power.
Christian Science has been a great blessing to me for nineteen years. I came to it for the healing of a distressing trouble for which I had been treated by physicians two years without success.
I wish to express my gratitude to God for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science. I had suffered from enlarged glands all my life and had undergone three operations with only temporary relief.
When I first heard of Christian Science I thought that those who denied the testimony of their eyes and other senses, were not quite normal; and though I had received from my sister a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, it stood for several years untouched in my bookcase.
Christian Science came to me as a great light shining into the darkness. My only motive for taking up the study of it was to see if it would give me a clearer understanding of God, and it did; for it opened up the Bible as a great storehouse, and showed me the law of Love as able to dispel all human woe.