Testimonies of Healing

I had been a sufferer for eleven years with what materia medica termed distressing nervous and stomach troubles and attendant complications. During this time I was under the constant care of the most able physicians, and had lived in California by their advice; but I failed to obtain health until, after having given up all possible hope, Christian Science was mentioned to me, not by a Scientist but by a Jewish lady who was visiting us at the time.

I first became interested in Christian Science about three years ago, when I was healed of a so-called incurable disease of the kidneys, as diagnosed by the doctors. I had spent much time and money for medical treatment, but received no benefit, and was finally told that about all I could do was to keep on a very strict diet, and that this might prolong my life a few months, as the disease was hereditary and incurable.

For eighteen years of my life of twenty-five, I suffered from chronic lung, stomach, liver, and kidney troubles, also from a rupture. In January, 1905, a friend of the family advised a trial of Christian Science, and as I was apparently in a dying condition, and had been told by a local physician to prepare for the worst, I was very willing to try or do anything that might save my life.

Twenty years ago I was an agnostic. Teaching had been my occupation for many years, and in looking over the elementary sciences preparatory for class instruction, I was in a very vivid way impressed with the indestructibility of matter.

To Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science I owe absolutely everything that is worth while—every day of health, every ray of happiness, every truthful thought.

To give honor to whom it belongs, is an ethical rule which I was brought up to believe in; therefore I desire to make the following statement in honor of Christian Science. In June, 1905, there was born into our family a baby who lived and grew apace as other babies do, till several months old, when she became very restless and seldom got any quiet sleep.

When I think of the transformation that has been wrought in my life through the teachings of Christian Science, love and gratitude prompt me to make this "just acknowledgment of Truth" (Science and Health, p. 372), and of what it has done for me.

IT seems to me that not a few of the readers of our periodicals delay giving their testimonies for publication for the sole reason that they have so much to tell. One truly shrinks from using so much valuable space; therefore, will the readers of this testimony kindly pardon the sparseness of detail in what I have to write.

From childhood I had a very weak constitution, being subject to frequent colds and stomach trouble. Being very ambitious for an education, I continued my studies against great odds until my college course was completed, when the condition of my health prevented me from taking up my cherished occupation.

I would like to express my gratitude for Christian Science. When I first tried it, I was alone in Philadelphia, discouraged and miserable, but my strong desire was to know the truth.