Testimonies of Healing

For a number of years I suffered from a complication of diseases. After taking treatments from different doctors and receiving no relief, they advised my husband to take me West to see if that would benefit me.

It is now twelve years since I turned to Christian Science for help, and that was after I had tried many material means and had failed to find a cure for a chronic bowel disorder. I knew nothing of Christian Science at that time, but was attracted by the healing of a friend, when I saw the change from confirmed invalidism to a perfect state of health, the friend manifesting great happiness and activity.

When I was unable, physically and mentally, to meet the duties of my life, and when I had given up in despair the hope of ever being well, Christian Science was brought to my notice. I had known nothing of Science, and fearing that it was but one of the various cults which had come to my knowledge and none of which I could accept, I determined first to learn something of its teachings and then if possible to try it.

About twelve years ago I had an attack of rheumatism, which gradually grew so severe that I was unable to attend to my work. To this was added a growing weakness of the eyes, making it impossible for me to read or write without glasses, and when the weather was bad a supposedly dangerous inflammation would set in.

We live at a village where there are but five other students of Christian Science, and although I had read Science and Health for nearly three years, I refused until recently to call myself a Scientist, as I had failed to demonstrate the power of Truth to heal disease. My husband was laboring under the sense of asthma, having been a victim for over twenty years, and it often seemed that he was on the verge of passing on.

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.

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.

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 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.