Testimonies of Healing

I had been a sufferer for three years. Tried five physicians in Sioux City, with no relief; then they advised "change of climate," still no relief.

Four weeks ago I was not able to do any work on account of a belief of sprained cords in my wrist and arm. I used drugs but they did no good, so I quit them and went to my work in the shop (blacksmith).

It is with unbounded gratitude that I give my testimony to the power of Truth over the darkness of human belief. Having had demonstrations in my own family, I feel that I should do all I can to acknowledge the power of Christ, as taught and demonstrated in Christian Science, to overcome all darkness of thought, sin, sickness, and death.

We desire to express through the Journal our heartfelt thanks for what Christian Science has done for us. I have been affected with beliefs of illness from childhood, at times suffering so that I was confined to my bed for weeks.

A lady tells me the following little anecdote about her Sunday-school class: "I asked the question: 'What is God's medicine for error of every sort?' A little 'tot' not quite three years old, made answer: 'If 'oo p'ease, 'in, it's Love ?" This lady says the children learn Christian Science very readily; that they love Science and Health, and do not find it hard to understand. This shows the increasing spirituality of the age.

You are right. I do not believe I shall have any more trouble with beliefs, as I think the latent fear is vanishing.

Three years ago last February, while at Oskaloosa, my attention was first called to Christian Science. I thought, "what folly!" but after coming home, I thought more of it.

Four years ago last fall I was healed of what my physician called consumption. We are farmers, and the question naturally arose: Is Science not good for animals, too? In the spring following, a valuable horse was taken with inflammation of kidneys.

I was sick for two years, and was given up both by the family and the doctor. We were all without understanding, but I had seen the good that Science had wrought, in the healing of a lady friend by a Scientist of Nebraska, about a year since, though I could not understand it.

We want the Journal, as we cannot do without its blessed Truth. It has done much for me and my family.