Testimonies of Healing

For a long time it has been in my thought to write to the Journal something of my experience in Christian Science, hoping that it would be of help to some one. My original interest in Science was more in the spiritual than in the physical side, and the beliefs I have received have been moral rather than physical.

For a long time there has been a desire on my part to tell of my thankfulness for what Christian Science has done for me. Words are inadequate to express my gratitude, but perhaps my experience in overcoming the grief over loss of loved ones, and loneliness, and sickness, may be helpful to some heart waiting and hungering for the Bread of Life as I was.

When I began reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," two years ago, I thought I was nearing insanity, that I would either lose my mind or die of a broken heart. I seemed to be surrounded by trouble.

" Freely ye have received, freely give," is the thought which actuates me to give my grateful acknowledgment of the good which I have so freely received through Christian Science. Twelve years ago, when living in Chicago, I was very ill and had been in bed over sixteen weeks.

I had been for ten years a chronic sufferer with dyspepsia, catarrh, and weakness, also general nervous break down resulting from childbirth. I had become so discouraged that I was morbid and almost wished I could die.

Nearly four years ago, my eyes began to pain me continually, and greatly so when I attempted to read, write, or work. I went to one of the best London oculists, and he told me that, partly owing to years of ill health and many attacks of inflamed eyes, my sight was injured, and that in future I must always wear glasses for all occupation.

I wish to make a grateful acknowledgment for the many benefits I have received through the understanding of Christian Science. Coming to it for relief from intense physical suffering, I little dreamed it was to set forever at rest my longing for Truth.

It is about ten years since I first became interested in Christian Science. It came to me in answer to my earnest prayers to be shown the Truth.

I was always an unhealthy, sensitive child, and much effort was made to receive help through materia medica. I went away from home to boarding school when fifteen years old, but suffered much from spinal, eye, and lung disease, and most of all from unhappiness and fear.

A very severe illness, when a young child left me with many disorders, which I was told would be outgrown. Some of them did disappear, but the most serious remained and increased with my growth.