Testimonies of Healing

Having for many years received countless blessings through the gentle ministry of Christian Science, I send my testimony for the comfort of some weary seeker after health and happiness. Several years ago I suffered from sleeplessness and was not able to do any work for a whole year.

I did not begin the study of Christian Science for physical healing, but because of a sense of emptiness in my life. There were so many things I could not understand,—I had been taught from childhood that God is a stern parent, who punishes us for circumstances over which we have no control, and it seemed impossible to me that He could at the same time be a God of love, so when Science and Health was put into my hands three years ago I was ready to receive it.

I have very great reason to be grateful to Christian Science for the wonderful help and guidance I have received through its teachings. I first attended a Christian Science Sunday school about six and a half years ago, when I was sixteen, and since then have relied on the truth to overcome my every problem, whether mental or physical.

I am writing to express my gratitude for the great joy and good health that have come to me through treatment in Christian Science. I have had no return of the stomach trouble for which I was treated, and can eat fruit of any kind, without the slightest return of the old suffering.

I feel that I should no longer delay in sending my testimony to our periodicals. Over forty years ago, when a boy of eight, I fell, and as a result was afflicted with what the physicians termed hip disease.

I became interested in Christian Science through seeking help for mental unrest and distress, and this wonderful truth has been most beautifully illuminating when the dark clouds of material sense seemed very real. There has been a tendency on my part to listen to mortal mind when wronged or unjustly treated by those who have not understood the truths taught in Christian Science, and in the degree that I have demonstrated love and refused to hold thoughts of resentment it has been proven to me that "Truth and Love come nearer in the hour of woe" ( Science and Health, p.

About seven years ago I decided to try Christian Science. I had been under the care of a physician for nearly two years, and he had finally given up my case as incurable, pronouncing it valvular heart trouble.

Some five years ago I was asked if I would accommodate a lady in my home for a month. At the time I was not inclined to do so, but thinking it would not be right to refuse I consented to her coming.

A little over three years ago I was healed of an organic disease from which I had suffered for several years. Everything had been done for me in the medical line and the only untried remedy that remained was an operation.

It gives me great pleasure to be able to write a testimony of my healing through Christian Science. About three years ago I was troubled with severe pains in my head and shoulders.