Testimonies of Healing

Having received so much help from the testimonies which appear in the Sentinel, I send this, thankful if it will be a help to any one who is seeking for the light. About fifteen years ago I was attracted to Christian Science by the healing of a friend who was very dear to me.

I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, and I trust it may help to bring some one from darkness into light, as I have been brought. When I came into Christian Science I had for over twenty-five years been struggling with a distressing trouble of my head and eyes, which was growing worse all the time; and after reading about Christian Science I went to a practitioner for further explanation, and to see if there was any help for me.

Words fail to express my gratitude for the help I have received through Christian Science. From childhood I was weak and sickly, and later on an abdominal trouble set in which kept me in bed for months at a time and necessitated the care of many physicians.

With deep gratitude I express my love and reverence to God for Christian Science. I also wish to acknowledge some of the benefits I have received through it.

I feel so grateful for what Christian Science has done for me that I write this testimony, hoping it will be of some benefit to those who may read it. I turned to Christian Science for help in April, 1910, when all material means had failed, with the exception of an operation; but I believe that had I submitted to this, it would have proved fatal, as I was in great fear of it.

For me to say that I am grateful for what Christian Science has done and is doing for me, but mildly expresses my sentiments. Before knowing of this healing truth I was hopeless, a physical and mental wreck, my chief trouble being extreme nervousness combined with an acute stomach difficulty.

When I was thirteen years old my parents became interested in Christian Science and I was remarkably healed. At that time I was partially deaf and growing worse every day, although I had been under the best of medical treatment for over two years.

Christian Science was brought to my attention seven years ago, but it was over a year before I became interested. I was a victim of the stammering habit, a trouble which I believe is as hard to endure as serious illness, on account of the constant embarrassment.

With a heart full of gratitude I wish to tell of the many blessings which God has sent me. Since childhood I had been ill as a result of a nervous disease through which, as was discovered later, I had also become short-sighted.

WHEN thought reverts to the past years of my earthly experience and comparison is made of the last five years—within which period Truth has been regenerating my consciousness—with those turbulent, unknowing, unseeing, self-seeking and ungrateful preceding years, it is little wonder that my heart offers its deepest gratitude to our known God. It is beyond the power of the human mind fully to grasp, much less adequately express, the realization of an ever developing and encompassing joy and thanksgiving for spiritual freedom; therefore must our works, engendered of gratitude, faith, and true understanding, attest the reflection of that Life, Truth, and Love which beckoned the multitudes to the teaching of our beloved Master, and caused his followers to accept of their vital import.