Testimonies of Healing

Many times I have desired to write a grateful acknowledgment of the wonderful ways of Love as revealed to me in Christian Science, but my heart did not overflow. Today I truly am grateful, for my blessings have been more than I could wish or ask or hope, and I am glad.

I am most happy to be counted among the many thousands who have been healed in Christian Science, and it is with great gratitude and love to God, and to our dearly beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, that I testify to the healing power of Truth.

Five years ago I found it necessary to seek aid for physical ills (including catarrh and a stomach disorder, also an affection of both eyes) outside of medicine or climate; and while I was very much opposed to what I thought to be Christian Science, I finally decided to see if it was possible to secure any help from this source. I went to a practitioner, and in two weeks was greatly benefited; was soon able to take up my work, and also to lay aside the glasses which it had been necessary for me to use in order to read at all.

The psalmist prayed, "Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path;" and such was the prayer of my aching heart for many years, until Christian Science came with the healing power of Truth, and opened up to me the way to health and happiness. Since that time the path has been made plainer, and I have striven to follow, although the way has been beset many times by severe trials; yet, knowing that I was traveling toward my Father's house, I have never faltered.

I am deeply grateful for the many blessings that have come to me and mine, and that continue to bless us daily in Christian Science. I thank God that, without solicitation from any one, I turned to this truth, not for physical healing, but because I was in distress.

I wish to tell of my healing in Christian Science in the hope that it may help some one else who is longing to know what it can do for the sick and discouraged. For years I had been in delicate health through an internal trouble which as time went on apparently grew worse, until November, 1908, when it seemed as if the end had come.

I feel very thankful to God for what Christian Science has done for me. About a year and a half ago I had a nervous breakdown which affected my head and made life seem a burden.

About five years ago I was persuaded by a kind neighbor to come far enough out of my ignorant prejudice and condemnation of Christian Science at least to try its efficacy for my mental suffering. I was sorely in need of physical healing, as I had great pain, said to be caused by an organic malformation.

I wish to express my gratitude to God for Christian Science. It has taught me what Life really is, and has healed me of sickness which was pronounced by well-known doctors as well-nigh hopeless without a serious operation.

It is with a deep sense of love and gratitude for the great benefit received, that I send this testimony of what Christian Science has done for me. For many years I tried to be satisfied with the religion of my fathers, drifting from one unpleasant experience to another, affiliating with different denominations, ever seeking hungrily for the true idea of God.