Testimonies of Healing

A Few years ago while walking down one of our principal streets, I fell into conversation with a stranger, who gave me an invitation to attend a Wednesday evening meeting at the Christian Science church. Knowing nothing about this religion and its adherents, I went so as to satisfy my curiosity.

It is a great pleasure to tell of the blessings that have come to me from the study of Christian Science. In 1909 the liquor habit, and in 1916 the tobacco habit, of many years' standing, was overcome.

The following testimony is given with a heart full of love and gratitude to God, the giver of all good, for Christian Science as discovered and founded by Mrs. Eddy.

I cannot express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done and is doing for me. After my little girl, five years old, had undergone three operations for appendicitis and its complications, we were told that she could not live.

I am glad to have the privilege of expressing my gratitude for the many blessings that have come to me through a better understanding of man's relationship to God as revealed in Christian Science. To my great surprise, Christian Science not only brought me deliverance from physical ills which medical methods were powerless to alleviate, but proved the solution for many other problems.

I am realizing more and more each day what a blessing it was when Christian Science came into my life. When I was fifteen years of age my father was healed of kidney trouble in a few treatments, after he had been given up by the doctors.

I have often thought that if Christian Science does more for any one class of people than another it is for mothers, since it has been such a help to me in raising my children. A few years ago, while we were living in Chicago, one night after retiring I awakened at half past ten with a terrible sense of dread.

A dear sister has supplied me with Christian Science literature for the past ten years or more, and I have learned to appreciate it more than all other literature combined except the Bible, which it has taught me to love and study with an understanding never before possible. I have always been a lover of good and sacred things and had laid my all on the altar, my greatest desire being to serve God truly.

I heard about Christian Science some years ago from my family, and have had many blessings from it since. I was first healed of the habit of smoking, which it had seemed impossible for me to give up.

It is nearly ten years since I took up the study of Christian Science, and I feel that it is only right to give my testimony in the hope that it may help some one as I have been helped so often by the testimonies of others. The church of which I had been a member believed strongly in a personal devil and a burning hell.