Testimonies of Healing

Reared from childhood in an atmosphere surcharged with the theories and hypotheses of materia medica, I grew to manhood with a reverence for it which amounted almost to awe. My religious training, while not as thorough as that pertaining to my physical welfare, was not wholly neglected In boyhood I attended Sunday School and was a frequent attendant at church; but I soon became dissatisfied with a concept of God which I could not understand,—a concept which I was told I must accept by faith and not try to comprehend.

OVER three years ago, when surgery and medicine held no further possible help or hope, and the "end" was said to be very near, I sought healing in Christian Science. I had been an invalid for twenty-three years.

Christian Science has brought me so many blessings that I wish to express my gratitude by relating my experience to the larger field which the periodicals feed. In September.

Before coming into Christian Science my life seemed so full of sickness and sorrow, and I was so tired and weary of it all, that I often longed for death. But once during my sickness, and a short time before my healing, I thought that I was going to die, and then came the question: Would anything be gained by death? Would I be any better off? There came the conviction that nothing whatever would be gained, and I have never had that desire since.

I think I feel as Paul must have felt when he said, "The love of God constraineth me;" my desire is so strong to express something of the gratitude I have for the joy, the peace of mind and body which I now possess, but which I did not have about nine years ago. As I look back over this period of time, to the cramped, sensitive, and self-centered person so full of fear and diffident to a pathetic degree, it is difficult to realize that personality as ever having been mine.

I think the query, "Where are the nine?" might well be addressed to me if I failed to testify to all that Christian Science has done for me. More than ten years ago my heart was injured during some violent exercise, and I became liable to attacks, any of which might have had a fatal termination.

It is with joy and a deep sense of gratitude that I give my testimony of the healing power of Christian Science. For many years I suffered from severe backaches and exhaustion, for two years from a stomach disease and extreme nervousness, and for twenty years I was a victim of hate, which embittered almost my entire life.

Three years ago I was subject to catarrhal trouble, and my nose became terribly inflamed and resulted in a very bad sore. I went to doctors for aid and was treated for over eighteen months, my trouble getting gradually worse.

While listening to some very fine music, and noticing with what apparent ease the director led a chorus of two hundred and twenty-three voices through the most difficult passages and brought all out in perfect harmony, I could not help being carried back in thought to the early history of this chorus, and the years of patient and loving effort that had been devoted to the accomplishment of this splendid attainment. Then my thoughts went back to the days when our Leader, Mrs.

For fifteen years I was a hopeless sufferer from asthma. I could neither eat nor sleep with any comfort, and scarcely knew the privilege of natural breathing.