Testimonies of Healing

The testimonies in the Journal have been such a help to me that I can no longer withhold my pæan of gratitude. It was in 1907 that I first heard of Christian Science, and out of curiosity went to a Sunday morning service at a seaside town, where I happened to be staying at the time.

In gratitude for the many blessings received through the application of Christian Science I desire to give my testimony. In boyhood I studied the Bible at school, as is required in my native country, and was very fond of religion.

I am very grateful for Christian Science. A few months before becoming interested in it I went out to Australia to pay some visits.

The reading of an article in the Sentinel caused me to realize that to withhold my testimony until further demonstrations were made, so that I might have more for which to express gratitude, was, in a way, not being grateful for blessings already received. While participating in a game of basket ball, I fell and rubbed the skin off my knee.

With a heart full of gratitude for our dear Leader's untiring love and patience, I write these lines. Christian Science came to me when, to mortal sense, my dear mother was passing from my sight with lung trouble.

When four years ago Christian Science was for the first time intelligently explained to me, I was in a western state many miles from home. Almost from childhood I had been considered delicate, and at this period of my life I had so many physical ailments that it was well-nigh impossible to get in all the prescribed doses without having them conflict.

My offering is given in the desire to do for others what has been done for me through our literature. It has often been remarked, How can I be expected to overcome physical pain when the seeming reality is extremely distressing? Having been troubled with two infected fingers, one night I was awakened by throbbing pain.

For five years I suffered from heart disease, which was pronounced chronic by several doctors; they all said I might live a long time, but must avoid all excitement. I suffered greatly in breathing, and the left side was much swollen.

It was about two years ago that I received my healing through Christian Science, by which I was led to believe God's promises and to take Him at His word. From childhood I had been a sufferer, and of late years the heart complaint was so bad that I was practically an invalid, unable to do my work or walk any distance, and confined to bed for long periods of time.

I have long desired to bear testimony through our periodicals to the healing, purifying, and regenerating power of this new-old demonstrable religion, in the hope that other sufferers, reading my experience, may be cheered and encouraged to seek Truth at this open fount of divine Love which is pouring forth freely to all who come ready to part with prejudice, a false sense of self, and to accept and apply, uncompromisingly, its teachings to their every problem. From early childhood until healed through Christian Science, I had been burdened with the fear of lung trouble, as the result of a serious illness pronounced by our family physician "lung fever," which left me in delicate health.