Testimonies of Healing

Recently while cutting a trail in a canyon in the mountains near by, it was necessary to remove a large quantity of what is called "poison oak," which grew in great profusion and to a considerable height. I worked for several hours in removing it, and during the following night I suffered so intensely that I called for help from a Christian Science practitioner over the telephone and was given absent treatment.

It is with a heart overflowing with gratitude that I wish to tell of the healing, through Christian Science, of my little daughter of what is known as infantile paralysis. In August, 1910, she appeared one evening to have a high fever, with a contraction of the muscles of the neck and back.

I consider it a privilege to send my testimony, and thus to bear witness to what Christian Science has done for me. In 1910 I was taken ill, and after suffering intensely, a consultation was held and my trouble pronounced a malignant growth of large proportions, for which I was under the care of four physicians and was kept under powerful opiates all the time.

It is with a heart full of gratitude that I herewith testify to the rich blessings which have come to me through Christian Science. I had suffered with a severe abdominal complaint for about twenty-three years.

In 1893 Christian Science was brought to my notice. I had been a great sufferer for two years from nervous exhaustion and sleeplessness, and had been attended by physicians of both schools, who gave me the best of their skill.

Words are inadequate to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. Before coming into Christian Science I was for thirteen years a confirmed invalid, having been under the treatment of seventeen of the best doctors and specialists of the South, three of those who had doomed me now having themselves passed to the beyond.

My healing in Christian Science was the natural result of the revelation of Truth which came to me with my first perusal of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and was instantaneous.

I have known of Christian Science for over fifteen years, and can tell of some remarkable cures, one of which took place in my own family when my baby was badly scalded on his face and neck. A Scientist was visiting me at the time, and by her prompt treatment he was healed at once and saved from lifelong scars.

I wish to give expression to that sense of gratitude which has come to me through Christian Science. I am most deeply grateful to God for all the good which I experienced in my former life, but more grateful yet for the recognition gained in Christian Science that God was not the sender of the sorrow and trouble experienced in times past, but rather that these untoward conditions had their origin in the human sense of separateness from God, in false thinking and acting.

Christian Science has done so much for me in the past ten years that I have felt for a long time I should write and acknowledge the many benefits I have received through the understanding of the Bible and Science and Health. Before coming into Christian Science I had suffered from many ailments.