Testimonies of Healing

When first I heard of Christian Science I was bitterly opposed to it. I thought it could not be right, because it was not related to the church to which I belonged, but I took up the study of it to prove to a friend who was getting interested how illogical it was, and I knew the only way to be able to argue with her was to know something about it.

I wish to bear testimony to the healing power of Christian Science. I had been a great sufferer from a serious stomach trouble for more than forty years and was afraid of everything I ate.

I have many times wished to write of my experience in Christian Science, especially of my first healing, because it may prove of great benefit to some one who is seeking earnestly to be rid of "divers diseases. " In 1896 I was advised to go under an operation for what was pronounced a malignant growth which was very painful, having spread rapidly from the first.

A sense of gratitude prompts me to say that Christian Science brought me my first glimpse of anything certain in the way of happiness and health. It immediately gave me a fixed thought-basis, from which intelligently to work out what we call "life's problems," which then seemed desperately complex.

Over two years ago, I was greatly prejudiced against what I thought Christian Science to be. I had been ill for some years, with a severe stomach trouble, nervousness, despondency, and many other physical ailments.

I cannot withhold my expression of deep gratitude for the inspiration and the healing which have come to me through Christian Science. For ten years I suffered from a severe nervous trouble and had been successively under the care of various physicians and medical authorities, yet there was no improvement ; on the contrary, my suffering increased with every year.

It is with feelings of love and gratitude for the clearer understanding of God's Word which I have gained through reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, that I write this testimony, in the hope it will help some one else who may be groping in the dark as I was until Christian Science brought me into the light.

Some time ago, our little girl was stricken with measles. A Christian Science practitioner treated her, and she progressed nicely without material precautions; but soon after this, ear trouble, an ailment particularly alarming to me, presented itself.

I realize as never before that unto us a Saviour is born. When we realize the all-power of God, this realization lifts us out of the pit of despair and death, into life, peace, and happiness.

I have felt for some time that it was my duty as well as a privilege to testify to the saving power of Christian Science as taught in the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " From the age of sixteen I was a seeker for Truth, and had been a member of an orthodox church for several years when force of circumstances led me to unite with another denomination.