Testimonies of Healing

Previous to the entrance of Christian Science into my life, about fifteen years ago, I may say that I scarcely knew what it meant to be well. I was of a very active disposition, but the least effort was invariably followed by headache, extreme nervousness, and frequently by complete exhaustion.

When a young man I suffered from an attack of diphtheria, and after that my throat was in a very weak condition. I took cold easily, which would go either to the head or lungs.

From my childhood I was troubled with biliousness and sick stomach, accompanied with severe sick-headaches. As I grew into manhood my trouble continued to grow.

I did not become a Christian Scientist from physical healing, of which, however, I was sorely in need, for a lifelong liver trouble seemed culminating toward its sequel in frequent attacks of stupor accompanied by swollen extremities. This was relieved only by a great upheaval of the whole system, with relapses after short intervals into a more aggravated condition.

It was in April, 1904, that I first heard the "still, small voice" of the Christ and received healing through Christian Science; and the blessings have been so many since, that it would take too much space to name them. Reared from childhood in an intellectual atmosphere, my paternal grandfather having been an orthodox minister of the old school for forty years, and my father a deep student, ever seeking for the truth of all things, I began early to ponder and to study into the meaning of life, and came to the conclusion before I was twenty that though God probably existed in some remote place, still it was impossible to connect Him with my present living.

My gratitude for Christian Science is beyond all words, and I cannot begin to enumerate the blessings actually seen and experienced which have come to me through my study of our Leader's works and the help of practitioners. About fifteen years ago, when a schoolgirl, I had an attack of spinal meningitis of such a serious nature that, in spite of attendance by three eminent physicians, the time came that all hope was abandoned, and but three hours of life were assured me.

About four years ago our little boy, who was then three and a half years old, was suffering with a. skin disease for which there appeared to be no relief.

With my heart overflowing with gratitude to God, and to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker G. Eddy, I give this testimony of healing through Christian Science.

Five years have gone by since I first heard of Christian Science, and when I think of all the blessings I have received, I want to give thanks for all the good that has come to me. From earliest childhood I was delicate and a constant worry to my mother.

AFTER suffering for several years from nasal polypi, which at first would come one at a time, the disease gradually became worse and would affect both nostrils, with a large growth in each, and finally three or four would grow simultaneously, nearly filling the nose. These symptoms became alarming, producing so much distention in the face and congestion of the brain that apoplectic strokes were of frequent occurrence, each one being followed by paralysis of one side of the body, including the vocal organs, and in each recurrence of these conditions I would fall to the floor, speechless and perfectly helpless.