Testimonies of Healing

After having practised as an apothecary for more than twenty-five years, my first understanding of Christian Science came to me through reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our Leader, Mrs. Eddy.

My healing was considered one of the most remarkable cases on record, by physicians who were watching the case. I was very badly injured by one electric car colliding with another in which I was a passenger.

In Isaiah we find these words: "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. " It is, however, a common experience to try every suggested material remedy for our numerous woes, before we are willing to heed this call of Truth.

I should like to add my testimony to that of the many happy and grateful ones who have been helped by Christian Science. For ten years I had been constantly doctoring for Bright's disease, liver complaint, lung trouble, and other ailments too numerous to mention.

Long before I heard of Christian Science I wished for something higher and better than the religion of the church with which I was then connected, as it did not satisfy me. At the early age of eight years I began my search for God and was baptized in an orthodox church.

It is with a heart full of love and gratitude to God, and to our dear Leader, that I send this testimony to the Field. I had never been a strong girl; had always been subject to colds and chills, and suffered all my life from a delicate throat.

The question is often asked, Will Christian Science heal organic disease? and I desire to testify to my own healing in the hope that it will reach some one who needs help as did I. I was brought up by a good Christian mother, taught to go to church, and had the benefit of good example, but when manhood came I severed my relationship with the church and drifted into agnosticism.

In June, 1904, my wife fell from the street car and broke her arm. She went to a physician, who placed it in splints.

I wish to testify to what Christian Science has done for me. When I was about four years old I had scarlet fever, which left me a nervous wreck.

I had suffered for about five years from a general breakdown in health, had gone from one physician to another until three of Topeka's best physicians had done all they could for me without success; I had tried all sorts of medicines and supports as fast as recommended by interested friends, with no improvement whatever, but rather a terrible hopelessness of ever being any better. Then, what seemed to me the last straw was added to my burden, for my eyes, which I had been using very steadily, suddenly began to pain me so severely that I was compelled to protect them from every ray of light.