Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

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.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I testify to some of the many blessings which have come to me through the teachings of Christian Science. Before I took up the study of this subject, nearly fifteen years ago, my life was empty and discouraging.

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.

The testimonies have been a great help to me, and I send this account of my healing with profound gratitude for all the blessings that Christian Science has brought to me. For many years I suffered from a complication of diseases, including neuritis and internal inflammations, for which an operation was recommended but without the promise of a cure; and for sixteen years I was constantly troubled with bleeding from the nose, which would continue for hours, causing great depression and weakness.

It is almost fifteen years since Christian Science healed me of chills and fever, and it has been my only help since then. The truth has never failed me, but has led me through many hard trials.

Christian Science found us when we were in deep mental depression, hungering after a God of love, a Comforter. We have truly found all in this beautiful truth.

When I first heard of Christian Science thirteen years ago, I was suffering from severe mental depression together with certain physical troubles. For two years I had been searching for spiritual healing, for I was sure God could heal me.

I am very grateful for Christian Science, as it came to me when I was in great trouble and seemed to have no human friend to turn to. It seemed indeed the supreme test, for I must either love those who had despitefully used me and had said all manner of evil against me falsely, and receive more good, or cherish resentment and lose all the good I had gained.