Testimonies of Healing

I thank God for the many blessings that have come to me through Christian Science. I have been healed of stomach disorder from which I had suffered for eighteen years, also of nervousness and catarrh; and the desire for strong drink and smoking left me through the help of a practitioner.

The spring of 1913 found me sick, helpless, not only ready to die but deliberately planning to do so, since life, as I understood it then, had nothing but great suffering, loneliness, and dependence to offer, for years I had not known what it was to be free from pain, and I had come to rely more and more upon remedies that induced a bondage far worse than the disease. At last there came a day when in a strange city I was left alone in the world, suffering bereavement in the passing on of the one I had loved best on earth.

About ten years ago I was in a deplorable state of health, suffering from what the doctors called nervous prostration. I was treated by two or three physicians, who finally decided that medicine could not help me.

Ten years ago several physicians told me that I would never be a well woman again; that I had two incurable diseases, namely, valvular heart trouble and a vaginal tumor which had been forming for seven or eight years. I was very much discouraged, as I had two children to bring up, and I could not have an operation performed as the condition of my heart would not allow it.

With a deep sense of gratitude I send this testimony, hoping it will help some one to know that God, good, is the only power. During the winter of 1916 I began to fail in health.

Often in reading the testimonies in our periodicals I have found a thought expressed in such a way that it would bring freedom and light where there had been seeming bondage and I hope my words may help some one. I have been healed of chronic quinsy, and my two little girls have been healed of measles, whooping cough, and chicken-pox.

For the past six years Christian Science has been my only physician. During this time I have been healed of hay fever, fear of lung trouble, constant headaches, and many other ills.

Nearly five years ago I was healed in three days by Christian Science treatment, of so-called intestinal tuberculosis, peritonitis, the effects of ptomaine poisoning, neurasthenia, throat trouble, and weak voice continuing after six operations, also many complications; but more than all else was the spiritual and mental healing. I was as unhappy and restless in thought in the orthodox church as I was sick in body under materia medica.

I Have had abundant proof that God is an ever present and available power under any condition. In October, 1908, after all material remedies had failed, so that I was facing a future of invalidism, at the urgent request of a sister who had been instantaneously healed of a structural defect of the eyes through Christian Science, I reluctantly consented, to give it a trial.

Christian Science was brought to me when I was most miserable, and after reading "Miscellaneous Writings" by Mrs. Eddy for some weeks I applied to a practitioner for treatment.