Testimonies of Healing

In Malachi we read: "Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. " This is the experience of those who take up the study of Christian Science, and it certainly has been mine.

Thankfulness to God impels me to tell others of the wonderful healing which has come to us through Christian Science Three years ago our little daughter was stricken with epileptic trouble. She was, however, completely healed with one week's treatment in Christian Science, and is now healthy and strong.

In January, 1908, my wife was operated upon for a rapidly growing and malignant form of disease. Three excisions were made.

IT is over two and a half years since I began the study of Christian Science, and I have hesitated till now about writing a testimony, because it seemed to me that I had so little to tell which was likely to interest others or be useful to them; but recently I have been led to see that others may be in much the same condition as I was, and that a plain account of what brought about this extraordinary change in me may possibly be helpful to them. I was educated very strictly and carefully in the religious thought of the established church, and up to about three and twenty I had never felt the slightest doubt as to its doctrines being the whole and only truth.

More than four years ago I turned to Christian Science for the healing of my eyes, from which I had suffered untold agony for nearly a year. I was almost blind, for I could not endure the light by day, and an artificial light was unbearable.

I am a living witness to the fact that the disease called aneurism can be healed. I give this testimony for publication at the request of friends, prompted by their reading of an article from the Associated Press concerning a man in an eastern city who was afflicted just as I had been.

My aunt having had treatment in Christian Science, I. too, became acquainted with it, finally asked for treatment, and was healed of an abdominal trouble of many years' standing.

I had taken medicine regularly from the time I was five years old, until I was healed in Christian Science. I had doctored with twenty-one different physicians, and had used many kinds of medicine, but the more medicine I used the worse I got, until nothing seemed to give relief.

Because of a very deep feeling of thankfulness to God, and to our beloved Leader, I wish to tell of my wonderful healing in Christian Science. Several years ago a physician told me that I could not live unless I underwent a very serious and expensive operation, but I would not consent, as I knew that the great grief which had brought on the condition could not be removed by a surgeon's knife.

Four years ago I became acquainted with Christian Science. I shall never forget the first day I went to the meeting; I immediately felt that this was what I had longed for — deliverance from sickness; and I did get deliverance in a large measure.