Testimonies of Healing

I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude for divine protection and guidance in a railroad accident while returning from Denver, Col. In the evening it was discovered that there had been a landslide ahead, and after we had waited at the station all night, orders came to send the train over another road, and we started at eight o'clock Sunday morning.

My first experience with Christian Science was the instantaneous healing of a badly injured ankle, from which I had suffered intensely for three days. I knew nothing about Christian Science at the time, but was persuaded by a friend to try it and so called up a practitioner.

My coming into Christian Science was not for physical healing. I was a church-member, had taught in Sunday school, and had always tried to find the truth as I felt it should be, —something different from just the every-day living.

Several years ago I came home from business one day with a severe chill, and a doctor diagnosed the case as ptomaine poisoning. I became very ill and was unable to go to business for four years.

I have every reason to be grateful for Christian Science. For years I had questioned many things; there was such a lack of peace and harmony, which I felt ought to be found among those professing to be Christians.

It was in the fall of 1909 that I first called on a Christian Science practitioner and was given two or three pamphlets, which I read now and then during the following year. About the same time a friend loaned me a copy of Science and Health, but it was scarcely looked at.

In appreciation of the understanding of God and of man's relation to Him that Christian Science confers, the following testimony is written with the hope that it may save others from submitting to operations. We have been students of Christian Science for twelve years, and have depended on this method of treatment in every case, knowing that "the word of God is quick, and powerful.

Having been a member of The Mother Church for many years and having in my younger days had the privilege of hearing Sabbath after Sabbath wonderful words of wisdom from the lips of our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, I esteem it a cause for unbounded gratitude.

Many revelations of God's ever-presence and all-power have come to me through the study of Christian Science. Loneliness has been dispelled by the true idea of Mind, through the knowledge that life and joy come from God and are not dependent upon material objects.

Even the little understanding of man's relationship to God which is mine through the study of Christian Science makes me very grateful. I frequently attended the Sunday and Wednesday evening services with friends or relatives who were Scientists, but never felt a desire to study this teaching, although I always had a friendly feeling toward it and owned a copy of the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.