Testimonies of Healing

A line just read has recalled me to my sense of obligation to the cause of Christian Science, viz. : "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" To those who have believed because they understood, it could not seem incredible.

With a heart full of gratitude I wish to tell of the many blessings which I have experienced through Christian Science. Because of much sorrow, care, and disease in my family I myself became ill.

I feel that I owe it to others to tell what Christian Science has done for me. For years I was enslaved by the liquor habit, although continually fighting it in a way; but it would, overcome my good intentions, and then would come such a period of excessive drinking as was shameful.

I have long withheld my testimony of what Christian Science has done for me, as the demonstrations seemed so small that I felt they were not convincing enough to one who had never experienced any benefits from it. An experience which I had last November, however, should convince even the most skeptical.

I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Christian Science for what it has done for me in my uplifting and for the many benefits I have received through the power of Truth. I gladly embrace the privilege of telling others of what it has done for me.

Even prior to becoming acquainted with the teachings of Christian Science I had wonderful proofs of God's omnipotence and love. I set my trust neither on physicians nor on material means and was healed of various diseases, and so were my husband and children; but in November, 1910, a terrible pain of the head set in which gradually became so intense that I cried out for hours at a time.

It is with a grateful heart that I wish to tell of the blessings which I have experienced through Christian Science. I had been suffering for several years with an affection of the stomach and displacement of some internal organs.

To express my profound gratitude for healing received, and in the hope that my words may bring relief to others who are suffering, this testimonial is given. With joy and humility I desire to make my first public words on this subject the acknowledgment of my error and injustice expressed in days past by thought and word against Christian Science and its Discoverer and Founder.

It is with gladness (because of the good it will bring to humanity) that I testify to the broad-mindedness, kindness, and honesty manifested toward Christian Science by some members of the medical profession. A recent experience brought this to my attention, and I will try to state briefly this case as it occurred.

In the winter of 1879-80 I was employed in a locality far removed from medical aid of any kind, when I experienced the full force of the words, "Lo, I am with you alway," and the fifteenth verse of the ninetyfirst first Psalm, though at that time I was not sufficiently enlightened to realize properly "from whence cometh my help. " I awoke one night with pain, which grew worse and worse, and at last it became unbearable.