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.
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.
For a number of years I have been proving that Christian Science does heal and that it is a protecting religion. The first proof of Truth's healing power was experienced at a time of great need, spiritual, physical, and financial.