Testimonies of Healing
MY heart is overflowing with gratitude as I take advantage of this opportunity to tell of the many blessings which have come to me since beginning the study of Christian Science several years ago. During this time I have not only been the recipient of health and happiness, but this truth has also regulated the details of my every-day life.
I am in the employ of a firm of manufacturers in this town, but some four years ago I was forced to leave my work on account of illness, and from that time until February, 1914, was unable to do any work at all. I suffered from gastric catarrh, and no food except milk would stay on my stomach.
With deep gratitude I wish to testify to the saving power of Truth in the case of a railway accident. On the evening of Dec.
When on a business trip with my husband a few years ago, I was taken with a sudden attack of rheumatism. We got home as quickly as possible and I went to bed immediately.
About fifteen years ago I was in bondage to the flesh, and it seemed that I was without hope or God in the world. I had been taught that God sends sickness and death, and I had to give up saying the Lord's Prayer, for I felt I did not want His will to be done; but when Christian Science revealed to me a loving Father-Mother God, I began to understand God's will and love it.
When I began to have Christian Science treatment it was with fear and doubt. For twenty years I had taken medicine both morning and evening for bowel disorder.
It was in the year 1899 that I first heard of Christian Science through a friend who was studying it. I became interested and sent for the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
My attention was called to Christian Science about twenty-five years ago through the healing of a woman who had been given up by various physicians. As I was then suffering from stomach trouble, I turned to Christian Science and took treatment for some time, but relief did not come until I began to study Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
From childhood I was afflicted with an ear trouble, which became so serious that for months at a time I was unable to hear with that ear. This condition was very annoying indeed, especially in my school work.
When I first learned of Christian Science I was suffering from numerous ills; in fact I seemed to have almost every ailment to which flesh is heir. I had tried all that materia medica could offer, with the exception of an operation, which my physician said was the last hope for me, as I had an internal growth that medicine had failed to reach.