Testimonies of Healing

I DID not come to Christian Science for physical healing, but because I was tired of what seemed a hopeless struggle against a selfish and sinning disposition. I never remember really believing in the vague and terrifying concept of God presented for my childish worship, but I had an insatiable desire to get to the bottom of things, and for a time the theories of natural science and speculative philosophies seemed to explain life sufficiently.

I have been interested in Christian Science for a number of years, and daily breathe a prayer of thanksgiving for the coming to me of this life-giving truth. I have been blessed in many ways, and as my last demonstration has convinced me more than ever of the all-power of God, I want to give it to hungering humanity.

It is with a great sense of joy and gratitude that I add my testimony to the steadily increasing number of those who have been brought out of darkness into the light of Truth through the teachings of Christian Science. Since I became interested in this teaching I have received many blessings—so many that it would not be possible to relate them all here.

I wish to tell of the wonderful healing, through Christian Science, of a sore that had been on my face for twenty-five years and had been pronounced malignant by a great many people. I had tried every means I could hear of to cure it.

It is with a heart full of gratitude to our heavenly Father that I wish to testify to the great blessings which have come to me through Christian Science. Some four years ago, soon after returning from a ten-mile walk during which we were caught in a heavy rain and drenched to the skin, I experienced a severe pain in the abdomen.

Prior to four years ago I was very much opposed to Christian Science, but at one time, on becoming dissatisfied with physicians and drugs, I called upon a practitioner, stating that I had no faith in Science, but wished treatment. The practitioner asked if she might explain to me the teachings of Christian Science, and when I consented she did so, also invited me to attend the church and visit the reading-rooms.

I wish to express my deep gratitude for an experience which opened up to me a clear understanding of our Leader's statements respecting the influence of mortal mind upon the body, and I give it with the hope that it may be of help to many who read it. Some time ago my son, a lad of seventeen years, developed what is known to materia medica as a "carbuncle," on his neck.

I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, hoping that it may benefit some one as I have been helped. This truth found me with my health and home broken up.

A great feeling of gratitude surges over me when I think of my condition now as compared with what it was when I turned to Christian Science for help. Even gratitude seems a poor word to express what I feel, and it is my earnest wish that this testimonial may induce some one who is in need to turn to this source for help, for Truth will not fail.

With a deep sense of thankfulness I write this testimony for the benefit of others, realizing the help I have received in the same way. I have known something of the good done by Christian Science for more than twenty years, but did not study it until the last eight or ten years, and I find that the more I study and try to demonstrate its teachings the more I gain from it.