Testimonies of Healing

Some five years ago Christian Science was brought to my attention in a very practical way. I was sick, but had not called upon the services of a doctor.

MANY years ago I had an illness from which I recovered, although I suffered from weak action of the heart and nervous debility, as was expected by the physicians. I had several attacks of weakness a day, and on account of this condition did not dare to go out or stay at home alone.

AFTER seeing a case healed through Christian Science, these thoughts came to me: What have these people that we have not? Is it of God or not? The desire to answer these questions led my husband and myself to study the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and after reading it for a few weeks we determined that the next time any sickness came to us we would apply for Christian Science treatment.

I am glad to be able to tell the seekers after truth of the benefits which I have derived from Christian Science. For three years I have been an adherent of these teachings which were discovered and brought to the world by Mrs.

I have been thinking for a long time of writing my testimony. Several years ago I was suffering with a chronic stomach trouble of thirty years' standing.

I wish to add my testimony to that of Mrs. McKeown.

In the hope that what I am about to relate may be the means of bringing a measure of encouragement to some wanderer in the wilderness of doubt and despair, I am encouraged to give publicity to the benefits I have experienced through the power of Christian Science to harmonize the lives of sinning and suffering humanity. It is more than seven years since I first began to investigate Christian Science, and although my study has been far from profound or systematic, it has nevertheless been sufficient to enable me, with the occasional assistance of a practitioner, to refrain from the use of material remedies during the whole of that time, to control in appetite for intoxicants, and also to meet with a measure of equanimity serious business reverses as well as the petty annoyances and impositions which are the daily experience of the average business man.

It is with deepest gratitude that I send this testimony to the Journal , with the hope that it may be of help to some one. About five years ago I was operated on for an internal malignant growth, and the doctor told me that it would not return.

It has long been my desire to express gratitude through our periodicals for all that Christian Science has done for me and mine. There is one demonstration which I would especially like to mention, and for which I am very grateful.

Several years ago, when away from home, I was attacked by a severe pain, which was promptly diagnosed as appendicitis. My condition was considered so serious that I was urged to go to a hospital, but fear of surgical treatment induced me to adopt the advice of a good friend to try Christian Science.