Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.