Testimonies of Healing

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.

It is with the deepest gratitude that I testify to the blessings I have received in Christian Science. I have never had very robust health, and for the last six or seven years I had suffered from general nervous debility and lack of strength in my arms, also digestive trouble and headaches of the most obstinate kind, besides various minor ailments.

I was healed by Christian Science after being confined to the bed for nearly three months and practically unable to use my right leg. The doctors said that unless I underwent an operation it would be necessary to have the leg amputated or else have a stiff knee.

I am glad to tell something of what Christian Science has done for me, and hope it will help some who may be in the same bondage in which I was. From girlhood I had suffered from a bowel disorder, and for fifteen years had always resorted to material means for temporary relief.

For five years I suffered with chronic stomach and bowel trouble, which became so severe that for two and a half years I could hardly retain any food. The bowel disorder was also severe, and weakened me so much that it seemed as if I had but a short time to live, the physicians having declared my trouble to be incurable.

Christian Science has brought so many blessings into my life that I can no longer refrain from expressing my gratitude. I did not come to it through the physical healing, but this glorious truth has done far more; it has healed me of infidelity and has given me a practical concept of God which I can understand, and prove Him to be an everpresent help in time of trouble.