Testimonies of Healing

I rejoice in the blessed truth of Christian Science, and I have had many proofs of its healing Principle. Some time ago I fell down the cellar stairs, striking on my Back, below the shoulder-blade, in such a way that I could scarcely breathe; but I at once declared the truth, knowing that God is a present help, and I soon felt better, so that I was able to get upstairs with my husband's help.

With the hope that it may be of help or encouragement to others, I gladly give my testimony to what Christian Science has done for me. It was over four years ago that I awoke one morning to find that I was unable to make myself understood, and deprived of the power to raise myself from the bed.

My life and all I am today I owe to Christian Science. Human language is inadequate to express my gratitude for what it has done for me! At the age of eighteen years I was stricken with what is considered an incurable disease of the kidneys, in its most malignant form.

Christian Science came to me in the hour of my greatest need, when all material means had failed to give me permanent relief. Grief at the loss of my only child, pain from physical suffering, and a great fear of death had seemed to obscure the last ray of light; all was dark, and I almost lost faith in the God I had tried to love and serve.

It gives me great pleasure to express my thanks for the change which Christian Science has brought into my life. For years it has been my endeavor to overcome a deadened sense within myself.

Two years ago I was a discouraged, hopeless invalid, as physicians had declared I was incurable. Severe lung and heart trouble had bound me until I was without hope, and my religion had ceased to comfort me.

It seems as though I could never give in the measure given to me, for surely mine has been full to overflowing; but I feel that I can at least make use of every opportunity to send forth the word of Truth, and express my gratitude for the priceless gift of Christian Science. After about ten years of ill health, being part of the time seriously affected, although benefited and relieved at times by materia medica and other methods to which I resorted, still I was not healed — I was still seeking for something to make me well.

In our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our dear Leader has written these beautiful words: "Whatever blesses one blesses all" (p. 206).

I have long neglected to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. In November, 1905, I was given up by one of the best physicians in Oakland, who told my wife and friends that nothing could be done for me, that I was too weak even to be operated upon.

From early childhood I was a sufferer from what we tried to believe was only a functional disease of the heart. In the years of 1891-2, while I was studying medicine, it was discovered that my sufferings were caused from organic disease of the heart, one of the specialists declaring that I was liable to die at any moment.