Testimonies of Healing

During the six or seven years prior to February, 1909, I had been rigidly dieting myself, trying to overcome a chronic intestinal trouble. One physician had said I was suffering from appendicitis, another that it was a diseased liver, and still another that there was a partial obstruction.

Christian Science has delivered me from the fear expressed in constant expectation of insanity and death. I was a drunkard and a confirmed smoker.

[Translated from the German] It is over three years since I first knew of Christian Science, and a feeling of joy and deep gratitude impels me to tell of the great blessings which this glorious teaching has brought and is bringing me daily. When I first heard of this teaching, my then thirteen-year-old daughter had been suffering with bronchial trouble, asthma, catarrh, and an affection of the lungs, all of which seemed to be beyond medical skill, the various methods of cure resorted to, including surgery, being of no avail.

[Translated from the German] I write this testimony with a heart full of gratitude and with a sense of great love to God. In September, 1910, I came to Christian Science with but little hope of ever getting well again, as I had suffered with various and severe female troubles for a period of twenty years.

The writer is so rejoiced by a recent proof of God's presence and loving care that he feels he must tell others, as his experience may help some brother who is struggling in the dark with a business problem. Some two years ago, when very young in Christian Science, I joined a friend (not a Scientist) in the financing of a patent not yet tried out, but which seemed to us to have merit.

That I may in some small measure express my gratitude, I would like to tell to others what Christian Science has done for me and what it means to me. About four years ago my brother was healed by Christian Science treatment, after he had been paralyzed for nearly two years and when the doctors could do nothing further for him.

While the Titanic was sinking, and during the whole time I was working at the boats, I held to the truth, thereby eliminating all fear.

Although I gave the facts herein stated at a Wednesday evening meeting some years ago, I feel that they deserve a wider circulation than that testimony could give them. Some time during the year 1899 I was suffering from a goiter that the physicians who knew my case said must end my earthly existence within a few weeks.

Christian Science came to me in the midnight of invalidism, when it seemed that not a ray of light could be seen to lead out of the utter darkness. After a period of misery covering about two years, I was taken to a hospital in Chicago, where I underwent an operation for an abnormal growth.

Christian Science has brought so much of strength, love, and peace into my life that it is a source of constant joy to me to be able in some measure humbly to reflect the Love which never fails to set free from sin and disease those who seek its aid. There are many ways in which we can give a loving thought, a loving word of encouragement, and do little acts of kindness in our every-day life, and as we keep alert to Truth and Love, we are ever awake to these opportunities.