Testimonies of Healing

I feel that I should give my testimony to the healing and redeeming power of Christian Science. I had not known good health from my earliest childhood.

In testifying to the benefits I have received from the study and application of Christian Science, I desire to render thanks to Almighty God, — the Principle of all good, — and to the noble woman who received the healing message and recorded the truth, with rules for its application to the needs of humanity. A message of such vital import—a divine revelation—surely demands the attention of suffering, sick, and sinning mortals, and their healing must of necessity cause expressions of thanks to the bearer of the message, Mrs.

Six years ago I was healed in Christian Science. I had been an invalid for a year and a half, in bed the greater part of the time.

I Became interested in Christian Science in 1901. For four or five years I had suffered with severe attacks which nothing but an opiate seemed to relieve.

When I was about thirty years of age, a medical man in the West Indies prescribed, as a preventive of fever, that I should smoke whenever it was necessary to travel through swamps by night. Believing him to be a safe guide, I followed his advice.

It is nearly two years since Christian Science came to me, and I wish that I could half express the joy of it all. Years of suffering, alternating hope and despair in the search for health through all the means known to medical therapeutics, is a fitting preparation for something more than human resources.

In August, 1902, a friend lent me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, remarking that it was the text-book of Christian Scientists, who deny the reality of evil and who claim that healing is being done to-day as Jesus did it.

EIGHT years ago I came into Christian Science through my healing from lung trouble and other ailments from which I had suffered for over ten years. My normal school training was taken under difficulties, and it seemed as if my first year of teaching would be my last.

One short year ago my acquaintance with Christian Science began through the healing of a day's illness, and the grain of truth which entered my consciousness through this apparently slight healing, was the beginning of a better, happier life. I can hardly recognize my state of mind today as compared with that of a year ago.

I gladly give my experience of how I was led to the truth through Christian Science. About three years ago I was taken with typhoid fever, which lasted for a couple of weeks, when there was a change for the better and all thought that I would soon be up; but such was not the case, as this was followed by what was called a re-infection, and the fever continued for several weeks longer.