Testimonies of Healing

It is with joy, and with gratitude to Christian Science, that I write this testimony of God's healing presence and loving care. Nine years ago I was a hopeless sufferer, not knowing what it was to be free from pain for a day.

Christian Science was first brought to my notice through a friend who lived in Boston. Whenever he visited at my home, he talked about this religion and what it was doing in the line of healing, and in his letters to me he generally referred to it as a means of relief from my physical ills.

I think the foregoing is an honest and correct statement of Mr. White's case, as far as I know it and have heard it from time to time stated by him in consultation in my office.

Although the Scriptures have always held for me a place apart from other books, and although I was taught to look upon the Bible as the book of life, this neither enabled me to find the living truth therein contained, nor were the means afforded to make it the "chart of life," as we read in Science and Health ( p. 24 ).

In the summer of 1913 I began to study Christian Science. As I was staying in the country with a Christian Scientist, I used to read some of the literature, and one of the testimonies in the Sentinel interested me very much.

In 1886, while still a child, I fell very heavily on my back, and after that I suffered a great deal from backache. This increased in severity with the years, but I refused to see a physician about it.

It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge what Christian Science has done for me and mine. I did not come to it for physical benefit, but for the spiritual uplift.

As the result of a prolonged and painful nervous breakdown, I was a wreck when Christian Science first found me. I could not sleep without the use of drugs, and had been in the doctor's hands for months without avail, until at last I seemed as one "having no hope, and without God in the world.

Some years ago, in extreme mental need, I held earnest consultation with a loved and eminent minister. In answer to my questions, he replied that he almost felt like accusing me of having dabbled with Christian Science literature.

If my testimony to the healing power of Christian Science stimulates increased effort on the part of even one searcher after ever present good, I shall be thankful; and in this spirit I lift up my heart and voice in thanksgiving for the innumerable benefits that have come to me and mine through the application of the truth as revealed to us in Christian Science. I turned to this teaching for physical healing, and through the faithful work of a loving practitioner I have received abundantly.