Testimonies of Healing
About twelve years ago Christian Science found me a hopeless sufferer, mentally as well as physically. After having been treated by many physicians, I spent the better part of two years in one of the best sanitariums in the state of California, where I tried every remedy known to the doctors and had every attention that human skill could devise.
I wish to express my gratitude to God for what Christian Science has done for me. It was the physical and not the spiritual healing that I was seeking.
On July 4, 1905, in passing down some steps, I injured my knee. The following day, I attempted to go to my place of business, but was in such pain that I was compelled to return home, which I accomplished with the aid of crutches.
Having begun my fourth year in Christian Science, it seems to me high time that I should join in the word of joyful testimony as to the immense good this healing and saving truth brings to all who will accept it with humility. I had read one or two numbers of the periodicals with interest; and having been given a copy of the text-book, I began at once, like thousands of others, to derive physical benefit from the study of it.
In the year 1868, as the writing on the flyleaf shows I was presented with a Bible. For forty years the book remained not only unread, but' lost to memory and view alike.
I AM so filled with gratitude and love to God, and to Mrs. Eddy for the healing truth taught in "Science and Health with Key to the.
After years of bitterness, of resentment, and of loss of faith in God and man, after years of suffering which resulted from these wrong conditions of thought, I began the study of Christian Science, without realizing that it was a religion. After I had searched for health through all material means, a physician sent me to a Christian Science practitioner, telling me he felt sure she could help me to bear the suffering, though I must not hope to be healed.
From a heart overflowing with gratitude I write my testimony of the almost unnumbered blessings that I have received from Christian Science. I had lost all faith in medicine to cure my many diseases, for I had tried all remedies known to physicians, as well as different mineral waters and other material means, until finally the doctors said I could not be cured.
With a grateful heart I wish to tell of my healing, which was brought about through Christian Science. For two years I had been, so to speak, incapable of working, and had suffered for years with nervous debility, sleeplessness, pain, etc.
Jesus said, "For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. " Three years ago these words of the Master were expressive of my condition.