Testimonies of Healing
For nearly sixty years I have experienced the blessing of Christian Science, which first came to our notice when a friend told my mother that he had found the truth that makes free and said that she also could have relief from the bondage under which she was suffering. The doctors, including her own brother, who was a surgeon, had said that her only hope was an operation, and her brother told her that even with an operation the chances that she would recover were only one in a thousand.
Like many others, I turned to Christian Science for healing after everything else had failed. At one time I was in a sanatorium with what the doctors claimed to be an advanced stage of tuberculosis of the lungs.
Mrs. Eddy writes on page 9 of "Rudimental Divine Science," "The spiritual power of a scientific, right thought, without a direct effort, an audible or even a mental argument, has oftentimes healed inveterate diseases.
Over forty years ago our four-year-old son was healed of spinal meningitis through Christian Science after a doctor had said that the boy could not live. Later the doctor acknowledged that it was Christian Science that had healed the child.
In 1917 I was suffering from throat trouble, and I seemed to be losing my voice. One day a shopmate who was a Christian Scientist came to me and told me that he thought Christian Science could help me.
I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical healing, but because it appealed to me as a reasonable and logical religion. I have had many proofs that Christian Science heals.
When I began studying Christian Science I was very depressed because of circumstances at home and my inability to find employment. This depression disappeared the first time I attended a Christian Science Sunday School, and I felt regenerated by the calm atmosphere prevailing there.
" Freely ye have received, freely give" ( Matt. 10:8 ).
Our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes in the Manual of The Mother Church ( Art.
Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health ( p.