Testimonies of Healing

My attention was first called to Christian Science in 1896, while in the Northwest. At the time I was actively engaged in the slum mission and revival work and was preparing to enter the ministry.

Christian Science has brought me so many blessings, that I give my testimony with sincerest gratitude. It has turned my sorrow into joy, my sickness into health, and has given me the understanding that Life is God, and that God is Love.

About nineteen years ago my father, after years of suffering from asthma and after all remedies known to materia medica had failed to give relief, was passing along a street in the city of Denver in a state of abject despair, when the sign of a Christian Science practitioner arrested his attention. It instantly occurred to him that Christian Science might do for him what medicine had failed to do, and though he knew nothing of it the name bespoke a super-human power which roused his weary sense and led him to seek divine aid.

I can hardly find words to express my love and gratitude to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who made known to us the great truth that God will heal us when we turn to Him.

It is twenty-one years since I first met a Christian Scientist. Then I was in quest of health and happiness, which I had not known for many years.

For several years previous to my healing in Christian Science, I was a physical wreck, suffering from organic troubles, chronic inflammation, weak stomach, heart disease, and nervous prostration. I had been under the care of many of the best physicians in this city, but received no benefit, the last two doctors having decided that an operation was necessary.

It was the hand of divine Love that led me to Christian Science. From my childhood I had felt the presence of a divine power that was leading and protecting me.

Before the birth of my eldest child I suffered severely from ovarian trouble and prolapsus, which became so bad that I could scarcely walk at all. After the birth took place I was much worse.

I feel it a duty as well as a pleasure to testily to the wonderful regenerating power of Christian Science. My attention was first called to Christian Science in 1887, when my wife was healed of a very severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism through Christian Science treatment, after having been under the care of a physician for several weeks without being helped in the least.

Few can have had more reason for coming to Christian Science than I had, and yet after my previous experiences I might never have taken it up but for its name. When Christian Science was mentioned to me, rather more than two years ago, not having previously heard anything about it, the name gave the suggestion that it might be the very thing which had once seemed possible, in the vague hopes, the undefined feelings awakened by the Gospel words, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also," etc.