Testimonies of Healing
A great blessing came into my life, seven years ago when I was healed from a serious affection of the lungs and other physical troubles by reading the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy.
Gratitude impels me to write a few lines in regard to a most interesting demonstration that has just been completed in our home, my husband's mother having been healed of a very bad case of asthma of about twenty-five years' standing. About six weeks after she had been healed of this disease, a severe dropsical trouble set in.
[Translated from the German. ] In 1907 I contracted a severe cough and also had a serious attack of kidney disease, from which I had been a sufferer for twenty years.
I HAVE had many reasons for rejoicing and deep-felt I thankfulness, since I have learned to know the truth that makes free—the blessed truth, revealed by Christ Jesus and explained to us through Christian Science. Divine Love has so wonderfully met my deepest need, that I feel impelled to speak about it.
Early last May I received a letter from Bradford, N. H.
About three years ago I was said to have gall-stones, which caused me great pain. I had treatment from our family physician, but the trouble appeared again after a short time, and I had to take large doses of an opiate in order to deaden the severe pain.
Before we heard of Christian Science my husband and I had struggled for years with sorrow and care. My husband had become completely discouraged and did not dare any longer to hope for an improvement of the conditions, but as a last effort to find help and comfort we turned to Christian Science upon the advice of acquaintances of ours.
My attention having been called to Christian Science by a friend who asked me to attend the meetings, I had a chance to become acquainted with all the advantages of the Christian religion which Jesus Christ revealed to us. About three years ago I was taken ill with a seemingly alarming throat trouble, but it was overcome by Christian Science treatment in a comparatively short time.
It is with a feeling of profound gratitude that I send this testimony. I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing though for about fifteen years I had been more or less an invalid, and twice had been laid up for months.
In the hope of helping some poor sufferer, I will give my experience with Christian Science after I had tried doctors and medicines of all kinds with little or no relief. Late in the fall of 1906 my husband and I were both taken with fever—in fact we had not been without some sickness for years.