Testimonies of Healing
I deem it a great privilege, as well as a duty I owe to the cause of Christian Science and to any seeker for the truth, to testify of the benefits received through Christian Science. Some twenty-three years ago my health began to fail.
From a little child I was always sickly, suffering from spasms and nervousness in general. At the age of eight I grew worse, and upon physicians' advice was taken out of school.
I am fifty-two years of age, and am in good health, thanks to God, and to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who has so clearly shown us the way to Truth in her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
When I turned to Christian Science some years ago, for the healing of my husband, I little dreamed of all that was to come to me personally through this seeking. I only wanted my husband to be well, and when I realized that physicians could not heal him permanently,—that during all the many years in which he had taken medicines for various physical troubles he was not in any wise benefited, I waked up to see that it was only a loss of time to longer depend on drugs for healing.
About eight months ago my eyes became very inflamed, causing me a great deal of pain and discomfort. I had been bicycling in a high wind, by the seaside, and a great deal of grit blew into my face and eyes, which caused a trouble that I imagine doctors would call ophthalmia.
In the summer of 1904 I was healed of paralysis. When first stricken, a physician was called who pronounced the case fatal.
I am very thankful to be able to testify to the healing power of Christian Science. When I was a very small child I had an attack of measles, and the doctors in attendance said that the disease settled in my throat, leaving my voice very weak.
Like most people, I came into Christian Science through the door of suffering. I had been troubled with lumbago and sciatica for several years, but at this time I was very ill, being in bed a great deal and all the time in pain and suffering.
I HAD the misfortune to inherit what is called a delicate constitution, with consumptive tendencies. My early life was greatly marred by tedious attacks of sickness, and when about eighteen years years old I had the measles, which resulted in a long spell of sickness.
A year's course of study, involving both physical and mental strain, acting on a constitution never considered robust, and weakened by two years' residence in the enervating climate of Aden, reduced me to a state of nervous prostration and one hundred and twenty pounds in weight. I completed the year's course and passed the final examination, though living in constant dread of breakdown at any time during the last three months.