Testimonies of Healing

In 1906 our four-year-old daughter was taken with a disease of the throat, the attack being so severe that upon the advice of the physicians whom we had consulted we took her to the hospital that same night. We reached there at ten o'clock, and in view of the extreme seriousness of the condition an operation was performed immediately.

A slight understanding of the great truth which makes free came to me a little over two years ago. I was then suffering from a number of so-called incurable diseases, among which was a throat difficulty that the doctors said I would have as long as I lived.

It is over four years since I first began the study of Christian Science. At the time my whole future looked so dark that I did not care to live.

WHEN I was a boy of only seven or eight years of age, I attended the funeral service of a small child. The good minister said among other things, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

When Christian Science was presented to my notice it seemed to promise the fulfilment of the words of Jesus, "Nothing shall by any means hurt you. " At that time, now nearly eight years ago, I was not in immediate need of physical healing, though not altogether robust, as from early childhood I was never very strong and caused my parents much care and anxiety.

For four or five years prior to the time I accepted Christian Science, the text-book had been in our home, my husband being a student of it, and during these years our two children became pupils in the Christian Science Sunday school. Notwithstanding all this, I did not accept the truth, chiefly, because of unwillingness to leave the church to which I belonged.

I am indeed grateful for Christian Science. Through the study and application of this new-old truth my eyesight has been completely restored.

I wish to give my testimony of healing, first in gratitude to God, then to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and also that it may be a cup of cold water in Christ's name to some one who thirsts for the truth.

When I first heard about Christian Science, a few years ago, I was an avowed agnostic. The teachings of the church in which I had been brought up had not satisfied, and on asking two old clerical friends some important questions as to God and the Christ, their answers served to get me into the vicar's pews of their respective country churches, where each preached a sermon at me.

In 1900 I broke down with what the doctors called locomotor ataxia, complicated with severe nervous conditions, and soon I was unable to go anywhere alone. I took a great deal of medicine and every night had to take several kinds during the night.