Testimonies of Healing
With a heart full of gratitude to God for Christian Science and what it has done for me and my family during the past thirty-five years, I wish to add my testimony. When everything seemed dark to me and the way to health very uncertain a neighbor, whom I had learned to love, came to see me and lovingly asked me if I would like to try Christian Science.
I was an active member of an orthodox church when I was very young, but some of its teachings I could not believe. Several years later, while browsing in a public library, I found the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.
Very early in my life I learned that Christian Science heals. One outstanding example was the healing of diseased adenoids.
It is with sincere gratitude that I thank God for His great love and for Mrs. Eddy, whose unselfed love, consecration, and purity enabled her to reveal to mankind the way of salvation and healing that Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, had practiced centuries before.
The first time I read Science and Health by our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, I was healed of a sick headache.
In the year 1903 I enrolled in a southwestern university to study for the ministry. However, four years later ill-health forced me to return to my home in Houston, Texas, and to abandon all hopes of continuing my chosen profession.
Many years ago while I was teaching in a small town, Christian Science was introduced to me by a loving couple who had recently taken up its study. There were no churches of this denomination nearby, so they invited several friends to meet in their home to help in holding Christian Science services.
Nearly fifty years ago I became interested in Christian Science through the healing of my sister of a severe bowel and nervous trouble. When she wrote me of her healing I felt that she had departed from my mother's faith and lost her soul.
When our youngest child was only a few hours old the physician in attendance came to my bedside quite concerned. He said with all kindness: "I am sorry, but your baby is deformed.
At the age of twelve I suffered from rheumatic fever and complications. My early childhood had not been an altogether happy one, and acute differences occurred between my sister and me.