Testimonies of Healing

I am very grateful for Christian Science, and am glad to tell of my wonderful healing and the many blessings that have come to me through this teaching. I arrived here from the East on December 31, 1909, an entire stranger, and knowing nothing of Christian Science.

It has been over a year since I took up the study of Christian Science to see whether there was an answer to a question which has always been a puzzle to me, and that is, why we suffer even though we ask for help in prayer. I did not know the answer before, as I did not know the meaning of the commandment, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

With deep gratitude to God for the many blessings which my family and I have received through Christian Science, I give this testimony. Several years ago when Christian Science was mentioned to me, I refused to believe it, being ignorant of its teachings; nevertheless through intense suffering I was compelled to turn to it, as materia medica was of no avail and could give me no relief.

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.

Christian Science was brought to my notice in the autumn of 1904. I had been searching for a guiding principle for a long time, especially the previous four years.

I have profound reason to be grateful for Christian Science, as any reader of my experience will readily admit. Three years ago there appeared on my cheek a small sore or growth, which gradually grew larger and more disfiguring.

I am very thankful that I can testify that Mrs. Lundberg has stated the exact facts, for I saw her every day for three weeks or more during that time.

Gratitude for Christian Science and love of the Christ inspire every word of the following testimony. The daughter of a minister, I was brought up to love God, and with a desire to be of service to my fellow man.

I wish to state that everything my wife has mentioned when referring to her illness is correct. At first we thought it was acute rheumatism.

My acquaintance with Christian Science dates from the year 1901 when, through its ministrations, one near and dear to me was healed almost instantaneously of a nervous condition which had rendered life well-nigh unbearable to her for many months. I did not make the study of this Science my own, however, until some four years later, when a similar condition made it imperative that I turn sincerely and earnestly to it for my own healing and peace of mind.