Testimonies of Healing

In March, 1901, when fifty-nine years of age, I was taken to a hospital, where two physicians pronounced my case a severe form of rheumatic trouble. While I was in the hospital one doctor was in daily attendance, and two others studied my case with him.

In 1897 I was in an advanced stage of a supposedly inherited lung trouble. My mother and my four sisters had passed away with the disease under the best medical attendance obtainable.

It is with gratitude, and the hope that it may be the means of helping others to find the truth, that I send this testimony. In 1904, while visiting in San Francisco, I became very ill and suffered intensely.

I have been intensely interested and greatly benefited by a careful study of Christian Science for the past two years. In February, 1904, I had what is called "a tobacco heart," and suffered from nervousness and constant dizziness until the following August.

The healing truth of Christian Science was first shown to me about eleven years ago, when, on coming home after completing my college course at one of the universities abroad, I found that a dear friend, whom I had known as a confirmed invalid, had been absolutely cured by Christian Science. Strange to say this wonderful healing seemed to antagonize me, and for many years thereafter I derided and scoffed at this Science and its Leader, hardly ever missing a chance to ridicule them when the subject was brought up in chance conversation.

I came into Christian Science about two years ago From my earliest recollection I had never known what it was to be well and strong, and no mortal can know how I suffered the last thirty years previous to my release from these bonds. The mental suffering was the greater, although the physical was terrible at times.

I became interested in Christian Science about ten years ago, through the healing of my little girl. When six months of age she developed what the physicians pronounced a serious bowel trouble.

One evening in the winter of 1905 I went home and found my little daughter, aged three and a half years, in a high fever and continuing to grow worse. After consultation with my wife about what course to pursue, I started down town to call in a physician.

Because of seeing and knowing of many demonstrations made by Christian Science, I at last turned to it for treatment after suffering for about two years. I had taken daily treatment from the doctors, besides medicines, but they said my diseases were incurable, although they held out the hope of enabling me to live a few months longer.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I give my experience for publication, hoping that others passing through the deep waters of affliction, as i did, may see a ray of hope and lay hold on eternal Truth as revealed to us in Christian Science. During the year 1894 my health began to fail; for several years I was able to do very little work, and the greater part of the time not any.