Testimonies of Healing
About three years ago T first became interested in Christian Science. At that time I was almost helpless, having, in 1904, sustained a stroke of paralysis which rendered my left side useless.
One of the most practical counsels given us by our beloved Leader is that we should keep our "minds so filled with Truth and Love that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them" (Pamphlet, What our Leader Says, p. 7).
In the summer of 1902 I was taken with a very severe attack of so-called appendicitis. I just pulled through, with the aid of one of the best doctors in New England, but I was cautioned that I must be very careful, must not exert myself in any way, and be sure to take a remedy daily.
With a heart filled with love and gratitude to God, I feel it a duty and a privilege to give to others my experience in Christian Science. In 1891, Science and Health was placed in my hand by a dear friend.
It is with gratitude that I send a testimony of my healing in Christian Science. When I was a child my eyes gave me a great deal of trouble, and I was taken to the best physicians in Detroit, and glasses were fitted to my eyes.
Five years ago, while employed as a clerk in a wholesale drug house, I was stricken with temporary paralysis of the right arm. Naturally, I turned to materia medica, for aid, but after trying the best physicians and nerve specialists I did not improve.
TO the record of hundreds of wonderful cures of seemingly incurable diseases by Christian Science treatment I wish to add that of a dangerous malady for which I had been treated unsuccessfully by three physicians and four specialists in the treatment of lung diseases. I had been troubled with a cough for several years, which became worse, until in the spring of 1908 I had to cease work having the usual symptoms, including loss of weight and appetite.
Monday , Jan. 27, 1908, an unknown and unnamed disease made its first appearance upon me in the form of pain in my knee.
I was sick, miserable, in bondage to physical pain, discouragement, and self-will; but Christian Science has healed and freed me, and changed all this to health, soundness, and joy. Through Christian Science I walk, with the keenest enjoyment of perfect freedom of movement, three miles a day to and from the office, after six years of invalidism and helplessness, with almost constant pain in the spine, which the doctors said would keep me from ever being well and active again.
For the countless benefits I have received during the last five years through the study of Christian Science, I should like to say how unspeakably grateful I feel. I have been lifted out of a life of sadness and misery, from which there seemed no escape, to a knowledge (though very slight) that "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.