Testimonies of Healing

For some time I have desired to add my word of thanks for the great benefit I have received from Christian Science. The study was not taken up for physical healing but in the search for something that was satisfying and practical.

I hope that this testimony of my awakening from a continual dream of pain, misery, and fear may encourage others who are looking for help. All my life I had suffered untold misery from stomach trouble and various complications, sometimes being in bed a week at a time with high fever and in constant pain.

It is my desire to say how thankful I am for even a very slight knowledge of Christian Science. I have been healed of a lump on one eyelid, which had resulted from a slight operation, and of serious eye trouble, which necessitated the use of glasses at all times.

With gratitude I testify to the power of Truth. In the winter of 1914 we rented furnished rooms at the home of a Christian Science practitioner.

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.

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.

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.

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.