Testimonies of Healing

IT may be of interest to people who are outside the circle of Christian Science, or those who are at present investigating the subject, to learn what the incentive could been for one who had chosen as his life-work the ministry, through the avenue of the pulpit, to change to Christian Science work. Prior to my knowledge of Christian Science.

After five years' enjoyment of the blessings which the faithful study of Christian Science unfolds, it becomes a duty and privilege to give thanks today for all the good experienced in those years when we worked alone, far from other Scientists, and for the pleasure and encouragement now provided for us in the church services and the Sunday School work here. The study of Science and Health has brought our whole family out of the darkness of despair and doubt,—brought us back to God, and His word has been our unfailing comfort and inspiration in every sorrow or difficulty.

For five years I suffered from an abdominal complaint. I was treated by seven physicians, and had used all kinds of remedies, but the awful pain did not grow less.

Christian Science found me in sore need of moral regeneration. I had known of it for about twenty years, in fact as a boy I attended a Christian Science Sunday School; but, like a great many other young people, I cordially disliked to be cooped up a minute more than was absolutely necessary, deeming Sunday a sort of holiday to be devoted to recreation and rest.

It is over two years since I first began the study of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy.

I cannot express in words my gratitude to God, and to the revered Leader of Christian Science, for the moral, physical, and spiritual help I have received through this wonderful revelation of Truth. For five years I had been a constant sufferer from distressing ailments, namely, sleeplessness, heart trouble, and other discordant conditions.

Our daughter had been suffering for two years with a severe nervous trouble, so that her limbs became distorted. The spasms were well-nigh continuous during the last period.

We have been so much benefited by reading the testimonies published in our periodicals, that perhaps some one, hungering for the truth as I was, may be helped by reading of our joy in Christian Science. My son bad witnessed my instantaneous healing, through the application of the truth, in a well advanced case of a throat affection (after having cared for me previously, in an attack of four weeks' duration, at which time the throat had to be lanced); but, as he was then in good health, he thought there was no need to look into it for himself.

In November, 1905. I was healed in Christian Science of the liquor habit, and in May, 1908, the tobacco habit suddenly left me.

A recent visit to the little island of Guernsey forcibly reminded me of my former holiday there, about five years ago. I was then visiting a former matron in whose hospital I had once worked for two years as one of the nurses.