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.
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.
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.