Testimonies of Healing

When but a child I began to have ill health, and it was a continuous struggle to remain in school. At one time I was out for a year, thinking that would benefit me, but I grew worse steadily and never attempted to study again, though my desire had been to teach.

I was a sufferer from what doctors called an incurable disease and was made whole through Christian Science. With the hope that these truths may be of benefit to some one who is similarly afflicted, I cheerfully give this testimony regarding my experience in Christian Science.

When I took up Christian Science I had been seriously ill for many months with a severe attack of a nervous trouble with which I had been afflicted more or less for fifteen years. Too much work and too much excitement kept me in a chronic condition of partial exhaustion, and at three separate times I had been obliged to discontinue all work and all amusement for extended periods.

I was healed of stomach trouble of many years' standing by reading Science and Health. My condition had reached the stage in which I had periodical attacks, that came on with greater frequency.

I am  an officer of the United States Navy, having entered the service at my fifteenth birthday and continued on active duty until one year ago, when at my own request my name was put on the retired and reserved list. Fifteen or twenty years ago I began to have occasional spells of "the blues," which my brothers and sisters and I looked upon as hereditary.

I am very thankful for what Christian Science has done for me, as can readily be understood when my condition before trying it is known. I had not been feeling well for years, and had taken medicine most of the time.

Twelve years ago I was healed through Christian Science, after three years and a half of invalidism, resulting from a serious abdominal trouble. I had recovered to some extent under the physician's care, but was unable to do anything as I had done before my illness.

Five years ago I heard for the first time of Christian Science. At that time no words more fittingly describe my condition than these, "Having no hope, and without God in the world.

In November, 1903, I was taken with severe pain in my face, and after using some remedies which gave no relief, I consulted a physician, who treated me for some time without benefiting me. He then advised me to go to a dentist whom he recommended, and I did so.

It is with gratitude I hereby relate the story of my healing through the truth as revealed in Christian Science and given to the world by Mrs. Eddy.