Testimonies of Healing

About eight years ago, I first saw Science and Health. I took it up and read a few pages but could not understand it.

The blessings that have come to me and to my family through Christian Science are more than can be recounted. It is with a hope that I may help others as I have myself been helped through letters in the Sentinel and Journal that I write these lines.

I became interested in Christian Science in January, 1900. Up to that time I don't suppose I had darkened the door of a church more than a dozen times in thirty-five years.

To reassure and encourage those who have as yet but a small understanding of Christian Science, I give this early experience. Nine years ago this month my only remaining daughter was at the point of death.

Christian Science was first brought to my notice by a friend who had been healed and who lent me Science and Health, which I tried to read but returned in a short time, remarking that I could not understand it. While I was in Chicago during the World's Fair, staying with acquaintances who are Christian Scientists, and who I knew had experienced wonderful healing, this truth was again brought to my notice and rejected.

In September of 1883 I met with a very serious accident. I fell from the second story of a building and received a compound comminuted fracture of one of my legs midway between ankle and knee, the bone protruding through my trousers into the ground.

Thankfulness for the blessings of Christian Science must find expression, and as the testimonies of others help us, we should reciprocate by sometimes writing our own experience. It seems easier, perhaps, to give these orally at the Wednesday services than to send them to the editors of the Journal and Sentinel ; but we should remember those who are far away from a Christian Science church, and whom a word of encouragement may thus reach through those messengers of Truth and Love so gladly welcomed in many a distant home.

I SHOULD like to make known to the sick and unhappy what Christian Science has done for me. I was thought to be a sickly child from my birth.

When I first came to Christian Science in 1897 I was a very sick woman, entirely discouraged. Soon after I was treated, I began to feel better.

During the year 1881 I was seized with curvature of the spine. By advice of one of the best surgeons of the state, I wore a plaster cast six months, when, as I seemed much improved, it was discarded.