Testimonies of Healing
It was in November, 1906. that I was healed through Christian Science.
I HAVE wanted for a long time to tell how much happiness has come to us through the study of Christian Science. At the age of seventeen I studied for my communion, and afterwards many religious questions came to my mind.
Christian Science came to me at a time of deepest need. I had had a long hospital experience, being in one in New York city for surgery and special treatment at two different times, without receiving the help I so much needed.
I am indeed grateful to God, and to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for Christian Science and what it has done for me.
I attended my first Christian Science service in San Antonio, Tex. , and enjoyed it so much that I purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude for Christian Science that I add my testimony to the healing power of Truth. Many knew of my affliction, and in a material way sympathized with me and did all in their power to alleviate my suffering, but without any relief.
I have had many beautiful demonstrations of the power of Truth, and after the last great typhoon experience (published in the Christian Science Sentinel of Aug. 24, 1907), I cannot any longer have a shadow of a doubt, in all my daily work and trouble, as to the Father's ever-presence.
My life, up to the time I found Christian Science, had been a search for good, for love, not knowing that when Love was found, there would I find the Father—God, the creator of all, holding His creation in the perfect law of Love. My earliest recollection is of good; then gradually, as I grew older, evil crept in to take a place in my thought and spoil the harmony.
Six years ago I was led to Christian Science by "a little child. " My two children, three and five years old, had asked to go to the Christian Science church because they could hear and loved the music which came from the near-by church at the evening service, after they had been put to bed.
It is now a year and a half since I was healed in Christian Science, and I have waited this long because I wanted it thoroughly acknowledged that I was healed before sending in my testimony. Love of excitement and a weakness for popularity caused me to drink and smoke simply because others did, until I no longer controlled these habits but had become their slave.