Testimonies of Healing

As it may encourage some other struggling patient, I will say that after the birth of my third child I was mentally and physically so ill that the doctor who attended me insisted upon my going to a sanitarium in the middle of winter. Instead, I went to relatives, but got worse.

I have been a traveling salesman for over twenty years and have gained the success that comes from close application to business. It had always been my one desire to know something definite about the creative Principle of the universe, and I had investigated along the lines of different religious creeds, but found nothing that gave me the evidence sought until I found it in Christian Science.

My whole existence prior to coming to Christian Science may be described as one of utter despair, failure, lack of definiteness in purpose and thought; a mental condition in which, while I felt a tremendous desire to be up and doing, I believed it to be totally impossible, for some reason which I could not understand. When I left school and went to Glasgow University, I spent three years there with the sole idea of gaining knowledge for its own sake.

With the hope that this testimony may in a small way express my thankfulness for a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel, which was sent to me some four years ago, I would like to tell of some of the good it has accomplished. About the time it arrived we were able with pleasure to watch the healing of a gentleman from tubercular disease and that of a lady from one of the most serious internal troubles, so that our lives were filled with the good that could come through a right understanding of God.

When some eight years ago I was told about Christian Science by my sister, I was such a great sufferer that I was longing to die. I then heard of a woman who had been healed after twelve years of suffering, and what attracted me more especially to this teaching was the fact that it claimed to be Christian.

When Christian Science came to me in June, 1911, I was a physical wreck. I had been taking medicine almost every day for over twenty years and had been treated by doctors and specialists.

Christ Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. " In deepest gratitude do I herewith subscribe my testimony to the unfailing power of divine Love upon which this familiar saying of Christ is established, and I send this message as one who is indeed "risen from the dead.

It is now about eight years since Christian Science was first brought to my notice, but it is only of late I have realized that no grateful acknowledgment has been made of the many benefits which I have received from Mrs. Eddy's wonderful discovery.

Although I have received much help from the testimonies published in our periodicals, I have long delayed giving my own, expecting to be able to record a complete regeneration. It is many years since I was healed in Christian Science of a serious bowel trouble, from which I had suffered practically all my life; also of a painful disease of the eyes of fifteen years' standing.

I HAVE often been asked why I believed so strongly in Christian Science. I will here try to give the reasons.