Testimonies of Healing

The many testimonies in our periodicals prove conclusively the great value to the world of our Leader's discovery and of her many years of labor so to establish its teachings that the world would never lose them. Happily for me I was one of the early beneficiaries of Christian Science, having been healed in the spring of 1886, and my desire now is to testify to its enduring effects.

Like so many others I feel that I owe all I have, or am, to our dear Leader's patient and clear teachings. It is nearly thirteen years since a Sentinel was placed in my hands by one who silently recognized that my need was very great.

Christian Science first attracted me as a means of physical healing. For years I had tried material remedies for chronic bowel trouble, internal weakness, and displaced organs, but received little help.

With a deep sense of gratitude I will relate an experience I had some years ago. It surely was an occasion for supreme testing of Christian Science.

About twenty years ago the seed of Christian Science was first planted in our home. Two years after my marriage in 1903 our struggles with sickness began, and for ten years I actually dreaded the spring of the year—it seemed so sure to bring sorrow.

Hoping sincerely that this testimony may help some mother in distress I wish to tell of the wonderful healing of my little boy, three years ago, of what was diagnosed as a tubercular spot on the brain close to the spine. In the spring of 1914 he was a healthy, well-grown child of five years, but as summer came on he gradually developed violent headaches, accompanied by sickness and fits of extreme giddiness.

I would like to express my gratitude for Christian Science. Two years ago, while trying to board a fast moving car, I was thrown to the pavement, sustaining a severe cut on the chin, and, I learned two weeks later, a broken wrist.

As one who has derived untold benefit from the study of Christian Science, I am taking the opportunity of telling others what it has done for me. I did not take it up for physical healing but to get acquainted with the true idea of God and man.

I did not know at the time, eight years ago, why I took up Christian Science, for I was led to buy the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," almost as soon as I had heard the name; but when I found on further study that my childhood prayer to be able to heal the sick as Jesus did was answered, my joy knew no bounds. Through the unfoldment to me of God as Father Mother, as revealed in Christian Science.

I have derived so much benefit from the testimonies that I would like to tell a few of the many blessings I have received since being interested in Christian Science. In the spring of 1917 I was healed of an abscess on my eye.