Testimonies of Healing

After years of semiinvalidism, I suffered a complete breakdown at the age of thirty. My heart, never strong, was declared by physicians of different schools to be so seriously affected that a necessary surgical operation could not be undertaken.

May God help me to express my gratitude adequately for all the good that has come to me through the teachings of Mrs. Eddy.

Some years ago, while living in Wiesbaden, Germany, I had a severe attack of blood-poisoning and was given up by all the doctors. They said that they could not help me, and that I would not live many years.

Gratitude to God, and to His messenger to this age, impels me to write my testimony to the healing and redemptive power of Truth, as presented to mankind in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy.

I am an ex-country editor, whom the loss of his paper, through political and other vicissitudes, drove to Kansas City and to the occupation of proofreader. In June, 1908, I was violently attacked by acute kidney trouble, somewhat in the nature of Bright's disease.

It is about three years since I became interested in the study of Christian Science, having been led to investigate it on account of needed physical healing, and not knowing at that time that there was anything else about it except the healing of the body. I had been a member of an orthodox church for a number of years and was, as I thought, a true Christian.

Having put aside all the various religions presented to me, as either speculative theories or outworn beliefs, I was after many years content to try to do my duty toward man, as I understood it, while waiting for the revelation of Truth which I knew was bound to come to me. Indeed, my sense of Truth, though I was ignorant of it, preserved me from the falsities of various isms which were presented to me in divers attractive forms, culminating in a spurious form of Christian Science which so repelled me by its evident dishonesty that I found it difficult to listen at first to real Christian Science when it was finally brought to my notice.

LEAVING Lucerne one cloudy September morning, our route lay over the celebrated St. Gothard pass, the marvelous scenery of which was interrupted at intervals by the many tunnels which plunged us into darkness, till finally the last and longest tunnel lay before us, the St.

Christian Science was brought to my notice in the spring of 1901, through the healing of my mother, who at the age of seventy-five was in a serious condition from kidney and bowel trouble. She had received no benefit from a medical specialist, but when we called a Christian Science practitioner, and read Science and Health to her, she was healed in about two weeks.

I came into Christian Science with a very impulsive nature, and although I worked persistently to overcome this condition of thought, the more I labored the more I seemed to be its victim, until at last I found, through some experience in church work and as a practitioner in the field, that every time I yielded to an excited thought and voiced an error, this same error would return to me through another, with even more force than it seemed to have when I was entertaining it. I saw that if this evil was to be overcome I must not ignore it, but I must not give it life by repeating it; that the only possible way for me to reach heaven here or hereafter was to overcome all belief in evil, and this I could not do while I was voicing it.