Testimonies of Healing

Words but feebly express my gratitude for the many blessings that have come to me and mine through the teachings of Christian Science. Over six years ago.

For several years our reliance has been in Christian Science, and the healing power of Truth has been our remedy for every ill. I was healed through Christian Science of chronic bowel trouble of twenty years' standing, although doctors said it could be relieved only by an operation.

In May, 1905, I heard the words Christian Science for the first time. They made such an impression that I began to make inquiry about this teaching, and a friend told me that it was a religion by which the sick are healed; but neither of us knew about the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

In 1910 I was stricken with what is known as infantile paralysis, and the case was diagnosed as incurable by two physicians. Subsequently I was treated in Christian Science, and am today more active and in better health than ever before.

It is with a dutiful sense and a feeling of keen satisfaction that I am giving herewith an account of a case of healing through Christian Science. I was ill for several years, and when medical treatment remained ineffective, the doctor advised that I take a complete rest in the south of France and stop thinking about my business.

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.