Testimonies of Healing

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.

I wish to express my gratitude for all the good which I have received through Christian Science. For several years I suffered from gall-stones, the attacks being often very severe.

Words cannot express the gratitude I feel for Christian Science for what it has done for me. It has made a complete change in me, something which two years ago I would call an impossible thing to do.

When Christian Science found me, I had been a sufferer thirty-five years. I was said to have contracted hip disease when a child of five, and although my father spared no expense in seeking my restoration to health, and the best medical advice was obtained, yet day after day I grew worse.

Seven years ago Christian Science found me suffering in mind and body, several operations previous to this time having failed to give me relief. Another was decided upon, and this called forth much fear and worry, which increased the physical suffering.

It is from a heart overflowing with thankfulness to God that I tell of some of my experiences since I first learned of Christian Science. About three years ago my daughter who lives in London wrote and begged me to try this healing truth, as she had a friend who had been completely cured by it.

It is my desire to add my testimony as to the results of a radical reliance upon God for healing power. Until I understood something of Christian Science, I had been a semi-invalid for seven years, and never quite well.

I am sincerely grateful for unexpected relief from physical suffering and from moral and spiritual darkness, and I wish to testify to the inestimable benefits which Christian Science has brought to me; also to express my heartfelt thanks to Mrs. Eddy for giving to suffering and bewildered humanity her wondrous work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Christian Science came to me at a time of great need, when a nervous collapse and a stomach trouble were making existence almost unbearable. After a long period of slavery to drugs, diet, and exercise, my condition was much more serious than at the beginning of my illness, and my thoughts were dominated by grief, worry, fear, and discouragement.

It is with sincere gratitude for the many blessings which Christian Science has brought to me that I give my testimony. About thirteen years ago I was attacked with spinal meningitis, from which I did not fully recover.