Testimonies of Healing
During the past eighteen years I have been journeying from sense to Soul under the guiding and sustaining influence of the truth as taught by Christian Science. Time and again I have proved the healing power of God in my own experience and that of others.
About six years ago I was in a very depressed state mentally, also physically weak. One morning a severe cold developed in my head, and my throat became sore.
It is with deepest gratitude to God for Christian Science that I tell of my healing. I was in ill health for many years, during which I had treatment from physicians of different schools, also tried hygiene and health cures, but without avail.
For the past seventeen years we have been relying wholly on God. Many years ago there was said to be no hope left for my husband, who was then trying in vain to recover from an attack of pneumonia.
Over seven years ago I was healed through Christian Science, after the doctors said there was no help for me. I had suffered many things of many physicians, having undergone four operations, the last one being what is called a major operation; then in five months I was told I had Bright's disease and there was no hope for my recovery.
Having received so much good from the testimonies of others in the Sentinel and the Journal, I appreciate the privilege of writing of some of the blessings which have come into my life through Christian Science, in the hope that others may be encouraged as I have been on the journey from sense to Soul. I have been interested in religious matters since childhood, my mother being a devout Christian.
With heartfelt gratitude I send this testimony, knowing that under God's loving guidance, through the far-reaching influence of our literature, it will go forth into all lands wherever there is some one waiting to be helped. About three years ago, after passing through a severe attack of acute lung trouble, which developed into tubercular disease of the lungs, I was advised by doctors in this city to go to a higher and drier locality, and as I had at that time great faith in the power of fresh air to overcome disease, I went to Saranac Lake in this state.
With a heart overflowing with gratitude I wish to express to the field my appreciation of Christian Science, and tell a few of my many reasons for thankfulness. At an early age, from a sense of duty, I joined the church to which my mother, and her parents before her, belonged, but I felt that sometime I would find a church which would be more in accordance with my belief; consequently I studied every religion and prayed to be led to the right one.
It is five years since I first came in touch with Christian Science, but I have been very slow in grasping its teaching. In the autumn of 1910 I had an operation for an abnormal growth, but the shock to my system, combined with the work and worry of everyday life, kept me from being well, and at the end of two years there was every symptom of a return of the trouble.
Each day adds to my sense of gratitude for the understanding I have of Christian Science, and realizing that the truest way to express this gratitude is to give to others that which has been given to me, I am offering this testimony of a perfect and complete healing of acute lung trouble in four days. On Tuesday, January 2, 1917, at about eleven o'clock in the morning, I was seized with a hard chill.