Testimonies of Healing
Before coining to Christian Science, I had degenerated into a deplorable condition, mentally, morally, and physically, I had suffered torture for many years with asthma, and various other ailments had developed. I had lost my family, my health, my property, and I thought I was "of all men most miserable.
Jesus said, "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" These words always came to my mind when I was asked to believe in a God who permitted, if He did not actually send, sorrow, sickness, want, and woe to His children: and it is because Christian Science has given to me a God who does none of these things, but who is in very truth infinite, omnipresent good, that I have gratefully accepted this wonderful truth, revealed to this age by Mrs. Eddy.
Christian Science has been to me Port after stormy seas, Peace after pain. From childhood all I had known of this wonderful regenerator was through ridicule and unwitting misrepresentation, so that it was not until long suffering had broken down the wall of prejudice that I determined to inquire at first hand into the Science.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE was presented to us when we were in the direst need, physically, mentally, and financially. I had been a very dissatisfied, vacillating, and unreliable individual since boyhood, early acquiring the habit of going to the saloon for enjoyment and stimulus; consequently I fell heir to all the results of such practice, from sin to disease and poverty.
It gives me great pleasure to testify in behalf of Christian Science, as I dread even to think of what I would have been, but for the glorious truth it teaches. In May, 1904, I was stricken with what is known as St.
I feel that I have done wrong in not giving my testimony to the public before, as it might have benefited some one who is seeking help as I was over three years ago. About eleven years ago I suffered a great deal with what the doctors called a disease of the heart and stomach.
Nine years ago I was a great sufferer from what was pronounced an internal growth. I had great pain and discomfort in every way, being unable to lie on either side.
It is now over three years since I first learned of Christian Science in Hongkong, China. Previous to that time I had heard of it, and knew that there were Christian Scientists living there, but I did not trouble to inquire what they believed or practised, although I was warned against their doctrine in the church at which I was a regular attendant.
It is with gratitude and love that I give the following testimony, and as I look back over the past nine years and realize all that Christian Science has brought to me. I cannot express in words my gratitude to God, and my thanks to Mrs.
I wish to express a little of the gratitude I feel toward God, who is indeed a good God, and to our beloved Leader for the truth as revealed in the text-book of Christian Science. For almost ten years Christian Science has been a very present help in our family, every member of which has felt the healing touch of Truth.