Testimonies of Healing

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.

I was first attracted to Christian Science about four years ago, through the healing of my brother from chronic rheumatism, catarrh, and the tobacco habit. After having exhausted all the means prescribed in materia medica (he had been treated by the best doctors in our city, and by various doctors elsewhere), he was sent to several mineral springs for treatment, but returned home very little benefited.

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.

It has occurred to me several times to write my experience in Christian Science for our periodicals, of which I have been a constant reader for more than a year; but I have hesitated hitherto, feeling that the space might perhaps be more profitably employed. All my life I have been a searcher after truth, and not finding it in the orthodox church of which I was a member, I drifted away from its moorings, longing for the spiritual food which creed, dogma, and ritual failed to furnish, and sought amid the seemingly plausible statements of several current cults and isms to satisfy the craving of my soul.

In April, 1899, my wife informed me that she was going to have treatment in Christian Science for a very serious lung trouble which materia medica had failed to help. This was the first that I had heard of Christian Science, and during the period of her treatment I took up the investigation of this Science to learn whether it was or was not the truth.

Christian Science has been the only physician in our family for over two years, and I send this testimony in the hope that I may he able to help some despairing mother. My daughter when nearly twelve years of age was healed in Christian Science of bladder weakness of the worst form.

It is with a heart full of gratitude that I testify to what Christian Science has done for me. Nineteen years ago I suffered so severely with rheumatic pain that I had to be taken to a hospital, where I remained fourteen weeks; I was dismissed, however, without having been cured.