Testimonies of Healing
With deepest gratitude I testify to the healing power of divine Love. When using the oven of a fireless gas range, I did not push back far enough the lever that makes the oven fireless, so the valve was partly closed and only one burner lighted.
For what Christian Science has done and is doing in my family I wish to express my deep gratitude. Fourteen years ago I realized that drugs could not cure me of a chronic disorder of long standing, and was advised by a nurse to try Christian Science, as she said she knew of nothing in medicine that could help me permanently.
When Christian Science found me I had for five years been reaching out to every material promise of relief from physical and mental suffering. Not finding the much needed help through these methods, in an hour of agonizing pain and discouragement I turned to Christian Science.
Christian Science was first offered to me twenty-eight years ago, but I gave no attention to it until 1902, when it found me in a most unhappy state of mind and in miserable health. From that time on I was helped constantly, and know I would not have lived through the many storms had it not been for this teaching.
About five years ago I first heard of Christian Science. At that time I was at home under medical treatment.
Christian Science is the greatest blessing that has come into my life. When it was brought to my notice about four years ago, I accepted it with an open mind and heart, never once doubting the statements made by my sister.
Over two years ago I began to read Science and Health to get some idea of what Christian Science teaches, but with no intention of accepting it. It did not take long to convince me that Christian Scientists not merely believe but know the truth about God and man.
In the ten years that I have been a student of Christian Science I have had many proofs of its healing and regenerating power. This study was not taken up for physical healing, but through reading Science and Health I was healed of inflamatory rheumatism, to which I had been subject for years.
IT is impossible for me adequately to express my deep gratitude for the blessings that have come to me through the study of Christian Science. My life has been changed from one of sickness, sorrow, and anxiety, to one of health, joy, and peace.
It is with a sense of duty and gratitude that I send my testimony, with the hope that it may benefit some one who is looking for relief from physical suffering. At the age of seventy-two I was stricken for the third time with a severe attack of gall-stones, and my suffering was indescribable.