Testimonies of Healing

When I first seriously took up the study of Christian Science, I was a physical and mental wreck, suffering from inherited neurasthenia and all the ills associated with it, culminating in loss of speech, paralysis, loss of memory, and other ills. My healing was not instantaneous; but in five or six months I had recovered lost faculties.

In the fall of 1913 I was stricken with a severe attack of eye trouble, and my sight was so poor that I was found to be a nuisance in school, for I could not read or write. One of the best specialists in the city said he would cure me by the first of the next year.

I desire to express my gratitude for the instantaneous healing of grief and loss when my brother passed on four years ago. He was not a Christian Scientist and was under medical treatment.

My experience with doctors caused me to turn to Christian Science, which our Leader says is "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony" (Rudimental Divine Science, p. i ).

It is with a heart overflowing with gratefulness that I testify to the great blessings which have come to me through Christian Science, as indeed I owe to this truth all that I hold dearest on earth. I suffered with facial neuralgia from infancy up to the age of sixty-three years, when after turning to Christian Science I was healed of this trouble, and for fourteen years enjoyed, almost without interruption, perfect health.

As the children of Israel were led through the wilderness, at first understanding not the way they journeyed, but later perceiving their unerring guide, the pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night, so have I been led by divine Love; but like the Israelites of old I did not at first realize that each step was taking me nearer to the promised land—the revelation of the facts of being. After gaining a slight acquaintance with the subject of Christian Science through occasional reading of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

I have been interested in Christian Science for fourteen years and would like to express my gratitude for the many blessings it has brought into my life. The overcoming of nervous prostration in its worst form, and the healing of a badly sprained ankle, an infected finger, a severe burn on the foot, and a serious attack of influenza, are some of the benefits received.

In gratitude for the physical, moral, and spiritual blessings and the protection experienced since I began the study of Christian Science eleven and a half years ago, I send this testimony. For years so-called relaxed ligaments of the knee caps, also a bowel disorder, were the cause of much discomfort; indeed, fear of the knee caps slipping was beginning to curtail active movement.

At the birth of a fifteen-pound boy, a very serious condition set in and my life was despaired of. After long years of suffering I went to a hospital and had an operation performed.

At a Christian Science lecture the speaker said there were some people who claimed they could not understand Christian Science. He then quoted from Matthew as follows: "And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.