Testimonies of Healing

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

With a great desire to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me I give this testimony. I was a sufferer for fourteen years from a large growth in the stomach which caused me great pain.

In gratitude and thankfulness to God I give this testimony of healing. In January, 1916, I underwent a very serious operation for an internal trouble of long standing, gallstones, and appendicitis.

The time has surely come for me to bring my tithe into the storehouse and to express my deep gratitude for Christian Science and for the understanding I have of it. I never cared for religion very much, and so resisted Christian Science as long as I could.

I should like to relate some of my experiences since becoming interested in Christian Science nine years ago. At that time the subject appealed to me as a religion, but it was nearly two years before I was ready to ask for help to overcome physical inharmony.

My object in writing this testimony is to give praise to whom praise is due, by expressing my deep feeling of gratitude for the benefit I have received through Christian Science. When I reached man's estate, on looking for proof of the teachings of the church in which I had been brought up I found that it was lacking, and as a consequence I became an infidel.