Testimonies of Healing
Unlike many who have sought refuge under the shadow of this great Rock, Truth, I was not drawn thither through a desire for physical healing. On the contrary, I rather spurned the idea that anything other than drugs and hygiene is able to accomplish the healing of the body.
I have in many ways acknowledged benefits received through Christian Science, and my heart is brimful of gratitude as I recount the blessings which are mine, and which have come to many dear ones through this understanding of Truth. Seventeen years ago I first learned of Christian Science when I was healed by it of a serious trouble, for which two physicians had recommended surgery.
Christian Science healed me seven years ago, in San Diego, California, when in the last stages of consumption. I had previously spent a winter in Florida, and then, as my one last chance for recovery, I had been sent to the warm and equable climate of the Pacific coast.
About fifteen years ago I had a severe attack of cold on my lungs, with lame back, and stiff neck. I was unable to take a long breath on account of the pain, and had sharp, painful thrusts take me in the back, neck, and lungs, accompanied with fever, chills, etc.
Many of us seem to draw our encouragement and inspiration to better things largely from the experience and achievements of others. I desire gratefully to acknowledge the good I have received from, the articles contributed to the Christian Science Journal and Sentinel , and it has occurred to me that I should try to give something in return.
Over two years ago I turned to Christian Science because everything else had failed to help me. I was suffering from throat and lung trouble.
It is just three years since I first heard of Christian Science. All my life I had been very delicate, and had had several severe illnesses.
It is with grateful love and appreciation for the work of our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, in making plain to this age the Christ-healing, that I send this testimony.
For eight long, weary years I was a great sufferer from female weakness with all its accompanying train of ills. Part of the time I was bedfast; for six months I never sat up at all, and could not do any work when at my best.
When Christian Science first came to my notice I was an atheist in all the word implies, believing this mortal existence to be all and death the end of all things for me, but Truth came, and in its light the dark shadow of atheism in all its hideousness disappeared never again to return, for I am being led upward and onward on my journey, out of darkness into Truth's eternal dawn, from sense to Soul. Since coming into the light of Christian Science there have been many beautiful demonstrations of the power of Truth over error.