Testimonies of Healing
Before I knew anything about Christian Science, I was an invalid: in fact, had been all my life. When I reached the age of fourteen I became very weak, and found myself bedfast.
THE recent reading of some critical comments respecting Christian Science and its Leader has caused the present writer to question himself: Would it be possible for you to forsake the cause of Christian Science, or to fall away from trying to live its precepts? And if falling away, where would you fall? Do you merely believe in this Science of being, or do you truly understand it? If the unity of God and His creation, man and the universe, is understood, how could you depart from this certain knowledge of so great salvation? If the above-mentioned editorial critic could have had the present writer's experience, surely his unwarranted opinions would never have been penned. In July, 1905, I found myself in a southern city, in that extremity of mind and body which has been described as God's opportunity.
It is with a feeling of deepest gratitude for the blessings which have come to me through Christian Science that I wish to tell of my experiences. For mouths I suffered from melancholy and nervous exhaustion, and did not care to do anything, since whatever I started to do seemed a heavy task.
The dearest experience that ever came into my earthly existence is the healing, through Christian Science, of a trouble from which I had suffered since childhood. I was said to have been born with defective vision.
I first heard definitely of Christian Science about twelve years ago. My father and sister were overheard discussing it, and I realized at once that it was the truth.
I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me and my little family. For several years past it has enabled us to keep well and to meet the ailments which sometimes present themselves in a family of small children.
In the hope that my experience will be of use in spreading the truth which heals mankind, I respectfully submit the following testimony. About six years ago we became interested in Christian Science, through my brother who had been healed of numerous diseases.
When God led me to Christian Science, about a year and a half ago, our only child, seven years old, was in a hopeless condition. She had been suffering for two years with a disease of the kidneys.
With loving remembrance of the first copy of the Journal I ever saw, I wish to express my thanks for all that Christian Science means to me and in our home. It was about twelve years ago that a friend sent me the Journal, and after reading it I sent for a copy of Science and Health.
Such a wave of gratitude for Christian Science came over me while studying one of our Lesson-Sermons that I feel impelled to express it. God led me to Christian Science when I was most in need of the Comforter.