Testimonies of Healing

IT is with joy. and a sense of obligation to help all who may read these lines, that I give expression to the gratitude and love I feel for Christian Science, — for its Founder.

While I am not a student of Christian Science, I can bear grateful testimony to its healing power. When our little daughter was six months old she was taken very ill with what the physician pronounced an acute attack of spinal disease and a stomach complication.

I had suffered since childhood with severe headache and backache. Each year the suffering increased, and by the time I was twenty-one the headaches had assumed an alarming form.

It is a great joy to be able to tell my experiences since I have understood a little of Christian Science. When it was brought to my notice my baby girl, seven months old, was very ill.

It has long been my desire to express the deep gratitude which I feel for Christian Science, for not only did I regain my health thereby, but it has also brought me many other benefits. It is a blessing and a comfort in dark hours to read in the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Doubtless there are many who, like myself, owe humble gratitude to Christian Science for its saving power from faults of character. I do not remember the time when I did not "hunger and thirst after righteousness," but only in Christian Science was that hunger and thirst satisfied.

Christian Science is indeed the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus. It has healed me of several physical complaints, such as chronic headaches, backache, and nervousness; also a disposition to take cold, followed by a severe cough which lasted for months.

Last fall I had my little girl, aged eight years, treated in Christian Science for a disease which was diagnosed by the doctors as infantile paralysis. The physician had given me little encouragement, and her teacher sent her home, saying t hat she could not do the work required in school because of her condition.

As I read the helpful testimonies of others, I feel it a great privilege to add my own experience of the healing power of God as taught in Science and Health. Having been treated by the best physicians in our city with only temporary relief, I was indeed discouraged.

Hoping that some one may be benefited by reading of my experience in Christian Science, I wish to tell of the blessings it has brought to me. I had suffered for years from a severe pain in my back, and had been constantly under the care of physicians.