Testimonies of Healing

I wish to express my gratitude to God for Christian Science and what it has done in my behalf. While following my occupation as a bricklayer, I slipped on a wet plank and severely injured my ankle.

The more abundant life promised by Christ Jesus is what Christian Science has meant to me. In the midst of material comforts, with everything apparently to be grateful for, I was moody,—hungry for something, I knew not what.

Nine years ago I found myself becoming interested in Christian Science, although reluctant to admit it to any one, even myself. I had for years been prejudiced against its teachings, and would not allow the subject to be talked about in my presence, but I was in sore need of physical relief, having what two well-known physicians had diagnosed as tubercular disease.

With gratitude to God, and in the hope that my experience may be helpful to others, I gladly give this testimony to the healing power of Truth. Some twenty-five years ago I became afflicted with a weak back, which, as years passed, became a great inconvenience to me, at times rendering me unfit for work, my occupation being that of carpenter and cabinet maker.

It is from a heart filled with gratitude to God that I add my testimony to the many thousands given for our cause. I had been ill for years, a great sufferer, and to mortal sense there was no hope for me.

From early childhood I had worn a brace because of spinal disease, and I was treated by a physician of New York city who was a specialist in such troubles. My condition was serious at first, but great improvement followed the early treatment, and I was able to enjoy life about the same as other children, although always wearing the brace.

For a long time I have been eagerly watching the Sentinel for testimonies of healing from some of my former school friends, but recently it occurred to me that there may be at least one of those friends who has the same wish, and I am certainly glad to tell what Christian Science has done for me. In the spring of 1907 I could hardly walk, because of a weak back, from which I suffered continually.

I feel a deep sense of gratitude for Christian Science, which has given me great happiness as well as better health, and it seems as if God led me to it because of my need and my desire to know the truth. We learn from Science and Health that "desire is prayer" ( p.

I feel it a great privilege to be able to tell of my healing through Christian Science. I can never show my gratitude sufficiently for the way I have been lifted out of what the psalmist calls a "horrible pit.

In the fall of 1899 my wife was, to all appearances, in the last stages of lung trouble. I knew this positively, as I had lost three sisters with the same disease.