
Testimonies of Healing
My heart goes out with a burning desire to help any who may be as I was, searching the weary, endless path of mortal speculation and opinion concerning the law underlying phenomena. I went through Darwin, E.
Reading the many beautiful testimonies in the Journal and Sentinel prompted me to write a few lines from this field of labor, and thereby contribute to our periodicals. The work is growing here very nicely.
I am constantly receiving so much benefit from the Journal and Sentinel, that I should like to express a little of the gratitude I feel, by relating one little experience. One morning a young lady came hastily into the office where I am employed, and asked me to give her some help immediately to overcome a sense of extreme fear.
I would like to tell of some of the benefits that I have received from Christian Science in the past two years. Before coming into Science I had an abscess in the ear.
In reading the testimony of Harry J. Guppy in the Journal of July, 1901, I notice that he gives much prominence to the disappearing of the tobacco habit.
I take this opportunity to give to the Journal a demonstration that occurred in the Odd Fellows Home at Green Bay, Wis. I am a commercial traveler and called on the superintendent, Mr.
For some time, until about three years ago, I had been a constant sufferer from cramps in the bowels, frequent bilious attacks, and a sort of chest complaint, for which I went to the doctor for some months without any apparent help. Together with this state of things I became mentally very restless, hungering and thirsting for Truth; to know more of God and man's relation to Him.
In the summer of 1898 I began complaining of heart trouble, and not long after my stomach began troubling me. In August I was placed under the care of a physician with the hope that I might be built up and enabled to continue my work in the high school.
Since accepting Christian Science as my guide through life, I have often thought that my progress was slow; but when I compare the struggles for existence I had before I knew this beautiful Truth, with the life I have known since my acceptance, I think I have made a tremendous improvement. When Christian Science found me I was a very sorrowful, unhappy person, looking for peace and happiness.
It was with considerable trepidation that I waited my first interview with a Christian Science practitioner. I had traveled five hundred miles for treatment for the liquor habit and to study Science, and that morning had omitted my customary bracer.