Testimonies of Healing

" Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. " This verse of the psalmist came to me as a direct command to open my lips and give thanks forever.

About seven years ago Christian Science found me in the bonds of sin and sickness. I, who knew that man was made in the spiritual image and likeness of God, had so stultified my claim to a spiritual birthright by wicked indulgences and grievous sickness that I had become wellnigh callous to my fate as regards the former, and almost without hope concerning the latter.

Nearly twelve years ago, in a time of dire need, Christian Science first came into my home, with healing in its wings. My mother had been an invalid for many years, most of the time a great sufferer, and shortly before the advent of Christian Science into our home she had listened to the ultimatum of her physicians, together with the concurrent opinion of several leading specialists, that her only hope lay in a surgical operation, the alternative being death.

Christian Science stands to-day in all its sweet dignity as an established fact—its adherents do not have to advertise themselves. This was not the case twenty years ago; then, a student returning from class instruction to his field of labor sometimes sought to make himself and his work known in various ways, one of these being to send out a letter or circular saying that the Christ-healing had been given again to the world in Christian Science, after having been seemingly lost for so long a time.

I am not a Christian Scientist, but I want to tell what Christian Science has done and is doing for me. Four years ago I was very ill with lung trouble—to all appearances dying.

Ten years ago last September I came to Christian Science for healing. I was practically a wreck, both mentally and physically, having gone through three prolonged attacks of serious nervous trouble in the six years previous.

I am not a Christian Scientist, but I feel impelled to tell others of my own remarkable experience. On Jan.

We are told in the Bible to get wisdom, but with all our getting to get understanding, that understanding which "is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it. " Many blessings have been mine, but the greatest of these is the realization of the Christ, Truth, as taught in Christian Science.

I am reminded of my many blessings since I took up the study of Christian Science, about eight years ago, and the impression I received the first time I attended the Christian Science church, as the joy and peace that radiated from the faces of that congregation showed me they had hold of a satisfying good that I wanted. I did not take up the study of the subject for physical healing, yet I was soon healed of a trouble from which I had suffered for over ten years, just by the study of the Bible and Science and Health.

It is with grateful hearts that we acknowledge the great good Christian Science has brought to our family. In April, 1904, our little daughter, then three years old, had an operation for the removal of the decayed mastoid bone, the operation being a very severe one and requiring a great deal of care.