Testimonies of Healing
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.
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.
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.
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 remember endorsing a certificate of examination made out by an expert in Denver setting forth the loss of sight by Mr. Mosher.
I HAVE often been asked why I believed so strongly in Christian Science. I will here try to give the reasons.
I have had many proofs that Christian Science is the truth which Jesus said would make men free. When I took up its study I had then had two severe attacks of what the doctor called appendicitis, and he had advised me to have an operation right away.
It was early in 1902 that I first heard of Christian Science. I was struggling against the greatest difficulties in trying to educate and provide for my family, two of whom were small boys.
I have a great desire to tell the discouraged and broken-hearted what a grand thing it is to know God aright. I came to Christian Science for health, but I will not try to tell all about my ailments, for I was said to be diseased from head to feet.
Having read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" for five years, and having received so much good, I want to tell others of it. In my darkest hour I sought help in Christian Science, after having been given up by materia medica.