Testimonies of Healing

Mine is a long-delayed acknowledgment of innumerable blessings that have come to me through the study and practice of Christian Science. My introduction to it was the result of my wife's initial attendance at a noonday Christian Science testimony meeting.

I should like to testify to the efficacy of Christian Science. I was stricken with a pain at the base of my spine so severe that I could neither sit nor lie down without distress.

A high light in my study of Christian Science was my privilege of attending the Sunday School. I had been a pupil there from the time I was a small child, but when I reached my early teens I thought that I was not getting enough from it and that I should leave Sunday School and attend the church services instead.

A very helpful article in the Christian Science Sentinel awakened me to the fact that, although I had frequently offered testimonies at Wednesday evening meetings in Churches of Christ, Scientist, I had not yet written a testimony for the periodicals, although this is just as essential. It is with heartfelt gratitude that I acknowledge here a few of the healing benefits that have resulted from my study and application of Christian Science.

For the wonderful protection of God's ever-presence and loving-kindness I have given verbal thanks in the Wednesday testimony meetings of a Church of Christ, Scientist. Now I feel that a written expression of gratitude not only is long overdue, but is a very great privilege.

" Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it" ( Mal. 3:10 ).

For nearly ten years I was a semi-invalid. Having relied during this time upon medicine and surgery for healing without regaining my health, I had lost all faith in doctors and material remedies, and I asked God to help me.

Many have been the blessings which have unfolded in my experience, of which I shall relate but a few. As to physical healings, one in particular stands out.

My introduction to Christian Science came at a time when one of my daughters was ill with tuberculosis, for which the doctors offered no hope of a cure, even after the two operations they performed. My other daughter, who was in the United States at the time, had been given a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

Several years ago I had a severe toothache. About three o'clock one morning the pain was so intense that I awakened and could not get back to sleep.