Testimonies of Healing

The testimonies given through the columns of the Journal and the Sentinel contain so much that is helpful, that I hope, by giving my testimony, to return in a small measure what I have received. More than a year ago my attention was first seriously directed to Christian Science.

It is five years since I began the study of Christian Science, and in all that time the understanding of the truth has never failed to bring relief from whatever difficulty seemed to overtake me or any one of the six members of my immediate family. Our dear Journal of last February came when deep waters seemed to surround me.

From childhood I was very weak and sickly My main troubles were frequent attacks of nervous headache, increasing in severity as I grew older, and always ending with convulsions. At the age of nine I had so severe an attack that, after having fever and pain for two days, I was thrown into convulsions which lasted for two hours.

Previous to 1897 I knew nothing about Christian Science and heard little in its favor. About that time I procured the loan of the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

IT is with gratitude that I give my testimony, hoping that it may benefit others struggling for health and happiness. Twelve years ago I became afflicted with what the doctors pronounced cancer.

It is now almost three years since I first received any correct idea of Christian Science. While engaged in a manufacturing business in Columbus, Ohio, care, work, and worry, to which was added a severe shock from the fall of an elevator, brought on a pronounced case of nervous prostration.

I should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science, which cured our baby of rupture. A friend was telling me of the wonderful things that Christian Science could do, and especially of how a little baby had been most wonderfully healed.

Language is inadequate to express my gratitude for the revelation of Christian Science and my joy that it has come to me. Although suffering from various physical ailments, they were trifling compared to the darkness of my mind, and I sought Christian Science for the spiritual enlightenment alone.

In April, 1904, I was driven to Christian Science. I found myself on the brink of a collapse, and was fast becoming a physical and mental wreck.

While I do not feel warranted in saying I am a Christian Scientist in the truest and best sense, I can truthfully claim that I am a believer to the extent that I have employed no other treatment for the physical ailments from which I have suffered during the past six years. About six years ago, I had a sudden attack of illness which came in the night.