Testimonies of Healing

As a child I suffered severely during the winter months from colds in the throat and nose, and this condition became worse as the years passed. In 1893 I learned of Christian Science, and it appealed to me as a religion, but it did not seem possible for me to be healed, since I was supposed to have chronic nasal catarrh.

When the study of Christian Science was begun eight years ago, I was healed in one treatment of severe nervousness, headache, and a structural defect of the eyes. As my understanding grew many other ills left me, among them rheumatism, bowel trouble, and a weak back.

Christian Science has meant more to me than I can ever express; it has brought me health and happiness and has made religion practical. From earliest childhood I greatly desired to understand spiritual things, and was intensely disappointed as the years passed to find that no one really seemed to live what he professed.

The first Christian Science meeting I attended, about twelve years ago, stands out clearly in memory. The young lady who afterward became my wife accompanied me, and it was also her first visit.

As I have sat a guest at the monthly and weekly feasts supplied us by the Journal and the Sentinel , I have always gained a sense of being fed and blessed, but strangely enough have never had the grace to express a written "thank you" for the bounties received. Over twenty years ago Christian Science came into our family through a remarkable case of healing, and as a young girl I received as a matter of course the many blessings which came from this changed viewpoint and was certainly wonderfully blessed.

ON the evening of April 18, 1915 my four year old son was terribly scalded. Without my knowledge and with a desire to "help mother," he ran the hot water into the bath tub, and when it was half full jumped in, after entirely undressing himself.

I am so grateful for what Christian Science has done for me and for my family that I cannot longer withhold my testimony. When our little son was two years old he became poisoned from eating fruit and was suddenly attacked with spasms.

Joyfully and gratefully I bear testimony to the healing power of Christian Science. I was dwarfed and sickly from childhood, and at the age of fifteen a mental blackness, misery, and fear of almost everything, even of insanity, settled upon me.

With the deepest gratitude I write this testimony of the help Christian Science has been to me and to my little ones. It is the only remedy ever used with my four children, and the older ones are now learning to know the truth for themselves.

My heart goes out in gratitude to God and thankfulness to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for Christian Science, and let me say to those who suffer as I did that they need not be "weary in well doing," for the healing will surely come if they faint not.