Testimonies of Healing

Having been pronounced a victim of serious lung trouble, I was sent to the southern part of California in the hope that the climate there might be of some benefit. This was three and a half years ago.

I desire to express my deep sense of gratitude for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science. It is just four years since this truth was brought to me.

It has been about ten years since I was first led to Christian Science through the healing of a disease pronounced incurable by the best physicians the country afforded. For six months I suffered constant pain, except when lying down.

With gratitude to God and the hope that these few lines may be of some help to others, I gladly give my testimony. About a year ago, when suffering from a most painful sense of mental depression, groping in the dark, seeking for something, the want of which made life as then known blank and dreary, I turned to Christian Science.

For nearly twenty years I was a constant sufferer from severe backaches and other ills of womankind. I was treated by the best physicians, and I believe they were conscientious in their endeavors to help me, but they finally gave up and said that nothing except an operation would relieve the trouble.

When but a child I had a distressing nervous trouble and a paralytic affection of the left side. Although I was said to have been cured by materia medica, the cruel traces remained in a weakened constitution.

Christian Science has done so much for me the past year, in which I have tried to live up to its teachings, that I wish to express my gratitude to God, and to Mrs. Eddy for this wonderful truth.

I cannot refrain from giving my testimony of what Christian Science has done for me. I have been studying this truth since August, 1907, and am now in business for myself.

When one has passed through many years' experience of severe illness, both to one's self and family, when trouble comes in an unending cycle and sicknesses follow each other until pain and misery seem to stretch out limitlessly before one's view, when this was the prevailing condition until Christian Science changed all things, how could you or I show more gratitude than by trying to help others to be healthier and happier, and to enjoy the same blessings we now enjoy. When a sick man's greatest desire is health for a dear wife and himself, when all that he asks is just a chance to struggle on in search of happiness, and his unexpressed wish is that he may bear his burdens at least long enough to see those he loves free from a load of sickness and above want,—when these are all he desires from life, and when suddenly all good things are made a reality, and more, much more, than lie ever hoped for is rendered to him, then I ask, is it any great wonder that he and many others who have been sick should love to help those who are now struggling as they struggled and doubting as they doubted, those who are striving to overcome suffering and sorrow in their own lives? It is to those who now are sick and hopeless as I was, to those who are striving against sickness and pain to hold their positions, though fearful that the day is coming which will render them useless, a burden and a care to those they love; it is to the man who after working all day cares for a sick wife by night, his heart filled with fear and doubt of the morrow; it is to the brave wife, in whom hope is being fast killed,—it is to such as these that most of all I wish to write.

I write my testimony in grateful thanks for what Christian Science has done for me, and I hope that through it I may be able to reflect a little ray of good to some one in return for the great amount of good which has been reflected to me. On the twenty-first day of June, 1907, Christian Science found me—an invalid, given up to die by several physicians.