Testimonies of Healing

After twelve long years of sorrow and loss, and earnestly reaching out for Truth, Christian Science came to me with healing in its wings, at a time when I had entirely lost all hope, and even my belief in a God. Then, when plunged in despairing darkness, a friend persuaded me to go to a Wednesday evening meeting, "Just," as she said, "to see what Christian Science is.

Looking forward as eagerly as I do to the arrival of the Journal and the Sentinel, I feel it to be only my duty to add my testimony to help swell the ranks of the ever-increasing and ever-interesting "Testimonies from the Field. " Some months ago one of my sisters was staying with me.

Two years ago two sisters and myself lived in British Guiana, South America. One of my sisters met with a great disappointment that seemed to deeply affect us all, as we dearly loved one another.

Science and Health was a revelation to me, and the reading of it was a joy unalloyed. Life was no longer a worried, wearisome existence, but freedom, peace, repose.

From a life of pain, unrest, nervous irritability, and discord, I have, through Christian Science, come into a harmonious life. For over thirty years I had not known what it was to be free from pain.

In November, 1895, while one of our girls, then ten years of age, was very ill, as the doctors said, of consumption of the lungs, my wife, then in the best of health and weighing one hundred and eighty-six pounds, was suddenly stricken down with pleuro-pneumonia. For seven months she was under the doctor's care, having every attention money could provide.

The physical healing in my immediate family has been very wonderful, but far more marvelous is the spiritual regeneration. During my childhood I attended the Congregational Church with my parents, who were members of that denomination.

As so many persons are interested in knowing more of the scope of Christian Science treatment in its relation to cases of accident, which usually come under surgical treatment in the hands of physicians, I should like to give the readers of the Journal a carefully prepared statement of a very interesting case of healing which was brought out in this city about two years ago. I should like to say for the information of those who know only a little about the Christian Science method of treatment, that Truth is the most wonderful educator and develops the mental faculties in ways that are simply wonderful, and teaches the practitioner to observe more closely than all others the workings of the human mind and the effects of thought upon the body.

I Wish to tell how I became interested in Christian Science. I married a Scientist and the first Sunday after we were married we got to talking on religion, and she tried to tell me something of Science.

Last summer I was taken with a bad case of sore eyes, I was confined to a dark room for three days. A neighbor coming in remarked, "I am sorry for you; the people in this country do not get over such a case of sore eyes in less than three months.