Testimonies of Healing
It is about six years since I first came to Christian Science. I was a great user of liquor and tobacco, but thanks be to God this healing truth freed me from these habits in three treatments.
With a deep sense of gratitude for Christian Science I offer the following testimony to its healing and saving efficacy. On the advice of my physician I went to the mountains in the hope that the change would do for me what medicine had failed to accomplish.
About eight years ago this spring I turned very earnestly to Christian Science. For five years I had owned the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
When I first attended Wednesday evening meetings at a Christian Science church, it seemed to my impatient state of thought that every one who spoke began by saying, "For twenty years.
I have known of Christian Science for eight years and a half and have no recollection of any other religion, because I was only a child when my mother began her study of the textbook, ''Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and started me in the Sunday school.
About two years and a half ago I decided to turn from all material helps and remedies and seek healing in Christian Science. Sometime prior to this I had looked into this teaching, but I was not ready for it then and apparently no help was received.
For some time I have wanted to send a testimony to tell how thankful we are for this wonderful healing truth and the spiritual uplift it brings. Christian Science has helped so much in our everyday life and has healed our little son.
A sense of deep gratitude compels me to tell of some of the wonderful blessings we have received since Christian Science came to our home. It is nine years since I first had treatment, at a time when joy, hope, and life itself had almost failed me.
As a boy I received my early religious training from good Christian parents, but when still in high school I began to lose confidence in their religion, because it did not give me the spiritual food for which I longed. At the age of twenty I went out into the world, and it was not long before I began to drift with the class that was seeking whatever enjoyment might be found in material pleasures.
About three years and a half ago my attention was brought to Christian Science by a few copies of the Sentinel sent me by a friend, and after reading them I sent for the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, hoping to find light on the Scriptures, but after reading it nearly through 1 laid it aside, feeling more hopelessly mixed up than ever.