Testimonies of Healing

It is seven years since I received my first glimpse of the truth as taught in Christian Science. I was not ready for this until every material means had been resorted to and failed.

Many times I have tried to formulate a statement of the facts concerning my experience both before and after turning to Christian Science for physical healing, and I must confess my inability to express one half of my gratitude for the truly wonderful physical, mental, and spiritual healing experienced. Prior to the fall of 1915 I was in very poor health.

Before Christian Science came into my life, existence held for me little of happiness. Everything seemed so objectless and futile, and the seeming preponderance of evil over good presented a problem utterly disheartening and depressing, because apparently insoluble.

Through Christian Science I was lifted from a lifetime of invalidism, having been poisoned by vaccination when just eighteen months old. For six years my body was almost entirely covered with malignant sores, and my life was many times despaired of.

I wish to add my testimony to the great number being given in the Journal. Eighteen years ago I was healed, by absent treatment in Christian Science, of what my physician called nervous breakdown with other so-called serious ailments.

For many years I reached out for something that I felt was lacking in my religious belief, and there came a day when my longing and research were rewarded through the realization that God is not a far-away corporeal being, but the all-presence, Love. For ten years, however, I wandered in the wilderness.

I have many reasons to be grateful for Christian Science. For about eighteen years I sought relief from physical disorders, and during that time I tried all kinds of doctors, change of climate, hot springs, and underwent two operations; then I was told that nothing could be done but submit to another operation.

For over twenty years Christian Science has been my friend and helper. I am so grateful for every demonstration, so happy to pass this truth on to others.

In April, 1912, I was very ill with what the physician termed catarrh of the liver and bowels, also nervous prostration. When medicine and all a kind physician could do seemed of no avail I turned to Christian Science, and a few treatments dispelled the trouble entirely.

I was first attracted to Christian Science by seeing what it was doing for my sister-in-law, and it is with a sense of gratitude to God that I testify to our little son's almost instantaneous healing. He was cross and fussy on a Friday and appeared very feverish.