Testimonies of Healing

About twelve years ago a growth attended with considerable pain appeared in my right breast. I at once called in our family physician, and, after treating me for six months, he advised an operation, as neither the pain nor the abnormal growth had been checked.

I feel , impelled to give thanks to God. to infinite Love, whose goodness I have experienced in having been led into the way of truth — the way which leads to peace and health.

During my stay at Berlin in May, 1909, my attention was drawn to Christian Science. My love for my mother, who was very sick at that time, led me to attend a Wednesday evening meeting, and on the following day I called on a practitioner with the hope that through the ministry of Christian Science my mother might be saved.

I feel it a privilege to tell of the benefits we have received through the study of Christian Science. I am grateful for some understanding of the power of Truth, and for the opportunity to study and learn more each day of its application in healing.

It is with a feeling of deep gratitude that I wish to testify to having been lifted, through the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," from spiritual darkness into the light of Truth, the recognition of the fact that I live and move and have my being in God, divine Principle. It has become clear to me that God is omnipresent good, the only power, filling both heaven and earth, omnipotent Love; therefore there can exist no other power, and the seeming power of evil is error, illusion, unreal, as the Master taught nearly two thousand years ago.

For eight years Christian Science has been my only physician, and in that time I have had many proofs that it heals sin and disease. I turned to Christian Science in a time of great mental distress, and this wonderful truth has healed me of forms of idolatry, hate, malice, selfishness, and many other evils, and is becoming more practical in my life every day, for as I strive to live in obedience to its perfect Principle, God, I am being freed from fear and all discord.

I thank God that I too can be called a Christian Scientist. Although but an infant in this study, I have much for which to be grateful.

Christian Science was first brought to my attention through the healing of my wife, though I gave little thought to it at the time In the fall of 1906 I was told by my physician that I had a complication of diseases and that it was necessary for me to try a change of climate, and as it seemed the only thing left, I started for California. On my way, however, I stopped in South Bend, Ind.

NOT long ago I read in the Monitor these words from Seneca: "He who has conferred a kindness should be silent; he who has received one should speak of it. " Surely, then, I must speak of the "kindness" I have received, — of restoration from invalidism to perfect health.

I feel that the time is ripe for me to acknowledge the blessings which Christian Science brought into my life at a time when nothing seemed worth while because of continued ill health. Fourteen years ago I suffered a severe nervous breakdown, from which I rallied very slowly and imperfectly.