Testimonies of Healing

I have enjoyed so much the articles and testimonies written for our periodicals, that I think it is time for me to express my gratitude for the help received. When I first became came interested in Christian Science, about five years ago, I was very unhappy, as there seemed to be much discord in and around my home.

While very grateful for the many physical healings experienced through the application of the teachings of Christian Science, I am much more so for the clearer understanding of the Bible that has come to me through the study of Science and Health. Early in life I met with an experience which caused me to take the Bible as my companion.

My gratitude for what Christian Science has done for us is unbounded. Six years ago, when a friend first spoke to me about this teaching, I was to sense unhappy, discouraged, and suffering from liver complaint.

When I began the study of Christian Science over six years ago I did so for the sake of another member of my family; yet how much I needed this knowledge of the truth no one knows but myself. It found me in a state of mental unbalance, with such suicidal tendencies that I was a constant care to my family.

I am indeed grateful to have the privilege of adding my testimony to the periodicals, in order that some one in need of physical or mental help may derive benefit from it. It is four years since Christian Science was recommended to my wife by a physician who said he had done all he could for her.

In the early part of 1915 I had a wonderful healing through Christian Science from what is called double pneumonia. There had been signs of a cough for some days, but as it had not incovenienced me, little attention was paid to it, though I saw later that I should have been more alert and tried to destroy it in the way we are taught to do in Christian Science.

The Lord "set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. " This passage from the Psalms expresses most clearly the transformation brought about by a knowledge of Truth, in overcoming not only a condition of ill health but its attendant mental and financial trouble.

I write this testimony with the prayer that it may help those who read it to understand how and why Christian Science is bringing mankind out of darkness into the light, as it has brought me. In May, 1912, I returned to California to die, as I supposed.

Although I was brought up very strictly in a religious way, when Christian Science found me I was in a very unhappy state of mind, as I had begun to doubt everything,—even at times whether there was a God. When I realized the teaching of Christian Science that God is Love and All-in-all, and that I no longer had to fear a literal hell, it seemed too wonderful to be true.

For over six years I have been enjoying the blessed freedom that Truth brings in Christian Science. I did not come to Science for healing, but through the desire for "a closer walk with God.