Testimonies of Healing

In the second chapter of I Peter we read, "Ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. " It is therefore with the deepest gratitude that I testify to the healing truth of Christian Science.

My experience in Christian Science has been so marvelous that I am perplexed as to where I should begin to relate it. The seed was sown when I was little more than a child, and for more than thirty years this seed lay apparently dormant, but it was slowly and surely leavening the mass of pride, ignorance, and early religious training which filled my consciousness.

Mrs. Eddy says, "If we are ungrateful for Life, Truth, and Love, and yet return thanks to God for all blessings, we are insincere" (Science and Health, p.

Christian Science has given me an understanding of God by means of which I am daily finding out what life and reality are, and this makes me more grateful than I can tell. This truth has given me all I have.

Some years ago my attention was drawn to Christian Science by the overcoming of a severe headache. A friend who came in one day when I had one of these attacks, offered to help me, and I told her she might do so.

Some fifteen years ago my attention was attracted to the physical healing attributed to Christian Science, but for about five years I gave it little thought except when some miracle in healing, as I then termed it, came to my notice. At last I began to read the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

In February, 1913, Christian Science was first brought to my notice when material remedies had been exhausted in the attempt to find relief. I had suffered for years from chronic bowel disorder, acute stomach trouble, and many minor ailments.

I wish to express my gratitude for benefits received from Christian Science. A few years ago, while living in London, I suffered severely from what is called neurasthenia.

I take pleasure in witnessing to the truth of my mother's testimony. It was my little girl whom she carried, and her healing caused me to turn to Christian Science.

For some time I have felt a strong desire to express my gratitude to God and to submit my testimony for publication, in the hope that some one may be benefited by reading it. For many years I was a sufferer from female weakness, and was never able to hold or to rock any one of my four children or do much about the home.