Testimonies of Healing

A few years ago I was an habitual drunkard, a confirmed cigarette smoker, and a gambler. I was taken to a Christian Science practitioner after being on a protracted siege of dissipation, and received an immediate healing of the liquor habit.

When I first asked for help in Christian Science I hoped only for physical healing and expected no more. About a year before this my attention had been directed to this teaching by the gift of a copy of its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

In May, 1913, when I became interested in Christian Science, I was just about a physical and nervous wreck. At the age of fifteen years I had a serious illness, and for two years afterward the doctors thought I would not recover from what they called lung trouble.

At the age of about eighteen years I left a comfortable home for South Africa. I had received a good religious education, and during the eleven years that I was out there I had many opportunities for applying my religion to the temptations that crossed my path.

I can hardly find words to express my gratitude for the benefit derived from Christian Science. It was in 1910 that I first came in direct touch with the truth, and then through the continued illness of my wife I was led to purchase a copy of Science and Health.

It is with the deepest gratitude that I write this testimony of the wonderful benefits received from Christian Science. Several years ago I was suffering very much from nervousness, caused, it was said, by a long and trying illness.

For three and a half years I had been troubled with a peculiar complaint from which I could get no relief, and which the doctor said was caused by an intestinal spasm. It came whenever I would eat or drink anything, and the wailing sound could be heard half a block away.

For more than ten years I suffered so from what was termed chronic nervous indigestion, that I was forced to give up my business and engage in work which would keep me out of doors more. Material remedies of every kind had been used without beneficial results, and as the malady was declared to be inherited, physicians said that no cure could be effected, but I might be made more comfortable by living in the open air as much as possible, with plenty of exericise, if I would be careful of my diet and keep myself free from worry.

When Christian Science came to me it was indeed the light that "shineth in darkness," and I am grateful for the privilege of giving my testimony. My days had been spent mostly in fear, sorrow, and sickness, for as a child I was considered delicate, and many laws of heredity were constantly held over me, one of which was insanity.

For some time I have desired to give my testimony of thanks to the world, and my wish is that it may be of benefit to some one. Christian Science has been my only physician; consequently I have never known what it is to take a dose of medicine.