Testimonies of Healing
About sixteen years ago a friend gave me a copy of '"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, also some Sentinels and Journals to read, and after reading for about six weeks I found myself healed of heart trouble, sleeplessness, a very painful varicose vein, and headaches of many years' standing.
The greatest joy that has come into my life is the larger understanding of God gained through the study of Christian Science. The realization each day of the ever presence of our dear heavenly Father is to me the "pearl of great price.
Early in the year 1906 a friend told me he was studying the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
I have read so many testimonies in the Journal and Sentinel that have helped me on my upward path that I feel, were I to continue receiving but giving nothing in return, I would not be fulfilling the law of Love. A little over a year ago I took up the study of Christian Science, and since then darkness has been turned into light.
From my earliest recollections I was conscious of a desire, which increased with time, to know the truth about being,—a desire to know about God and man. Throughout childhood and later as a young woman I puzzled over these ever recurring questions, as mankind throughout all ages has done: Why are we here? Where did we come from? And what will become of us when we leave here? I believed there was a reason for everything, and that sometime I would learn the reason for being.
It is a long time since I first became interested in Christian Science, and I have been called upon to prove its efficacy in almost every direction. When I look back upon the condition in which Christian Science found me.
When a boy eleven years old, I united with a church and tried to live according to its doctrines, but the temptations were many and seemed too much for me. I became discouraged and began to lose my health, until I seemed to come under the law of mortal disease.
On page 424 of Science and Health we read, "Accidents are unknown to God. " The proof of this was brought home to the writer in a striking manner some time ago.
Our little son was taken ill with fever. He was under the doctor's care and took a lot of medicine, but when the fever left him a sore came on his neck, and his chin drew down so that he could not raise his head or turn it.
I turned to Christian Science in an hour of great need, solely to obtain physical healing. I was suffering from severe internal maladies, was always in pain, scarcely able to walk, and spent all my time either in bed or on a sofa.