Testimonies of Healing

I began the study of Christian Science in 1908, in what seemed to me the very darkest hours of my life. One night, I was trying to think of something to relieve the sufferings of a sister who seemed slowly passing away, and over whose case the physicians were puzzled.

It is with a grateful heart that I wish to tell of the blessings which I and my family have received through Christian Science. Four years ago our nine-months-old boy was taken ill with acute lung trouble and had medical attendance.

In gratitude to God, to Christ Jesus, also to dear Mrs. Eddy, I want to tell what Christian Science has done for me.

Sincere gratitude impels me to testify herewith to the help gained from Christian Science. During a period of four years I suffered with a nervous trouble and mental depression.

Christian Science not only heals the sick, cleanses the lepers, gives sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, but it also teaches the higher meaning of retribution. Six years ago the remorselessness of the Turkish government compelled me to leave my home in Armenia and come to this country.

As an expression of gratitude for Christian Science and the many blessings I have received through its ministrations, I submit the following testimony, with the hope that it may help any who are troubled as I was. The fear of hereditary lung trouble has been prevalent in our family for many generations.

Five years having passed since I was released from the bonds of sickness and sorrow, I feel that I can give a fair and impartial testimony to the efficacy of Christian Science, hoping it may benefit other sufferers. For three years I was under the constant care of physicians, but each diagnosis seemed to abandon me to greater despair.

The psalmist wrote: "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. " As I read these words recently, thought reverted to the conditions in which I seemed to be involved before I learned of Christian Science.

I Am indeed thankful to God for the benefits and blessings I have received through Christian Science. Five years ago I was a physical wreck.

Although I have many times been conscious of lack of response to the loving invitation given to all Christian Scientists to bear testimony to the healing and countless other benefits that the teaching and study of Christian Science enables us to experience for ourselves when faithfully followed and applied, it has not been so much from a want of gratitude, but rather through yielding to the suggestion that it would be better to wait till some important demonstration had been made. I am beginning to realize, however, that no one proof of the healing power of Truth is more important than another; and so I feel encouraged at least to try to enumerate some of the many blessings of which I have become conscious during the last nine years.