Testimonies of Healing
It was my privilege to be brought up in a Christian home, the son of a minister of an orthodox church, and to attend church services regularly up to and after the time of my marriage. Later I fell away from church attendance because I found many things in the religion which I had been taught which seemed contradictory and which I could no longer accept.
It is with sincere gratitude for Christian Science and our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, that I wish to give thanks for the many blessings I have received.
" The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him" ( Nah. 1:7 ).
For nearly fifty years I wore glasses, due to a severe case of astigmatism. About ten years ago my sight began to grow steadily worse.
It is difficult to find adequate words to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me since it found me several years ago in a deplorable physical condition. Materia medica had pronounced its ultimatum that I would never walk again; or that if by chance I ever did regain my power of locomotion, it would be impossible for me to do any work that required heavy lifting or that necessitated my being on my feet any length of time.
At an early age I lost faith in the teachings of the religion in which I had been reared, and when led to read the Bible for the first time, I was so uplifted that I knew I had found the answer to my search for God. I suffered from chronic stomach trouble, which was accompanied by great debility, constipation, and a nervous condition pronounced by medical science inherited and incurable.
Christian Science was introduced to me at a period in my life when, although I was quite young, I thought there was nothing worth living for. Our family was broken up, and due to the depression years it seemed impossible for me to obtain gainful employment.
It is with a heart full of joy and thanksgiving that I offer this testimony to the power of the truths of Christian Science. I first became acquainted with Christian Science through a Wednesday evening testimony meeting which I attended at the loving invitation of friends who were Christian Scientists.
It is with a heart filled with gratitude that I express my thanks to God, the Giver of all good, and also to our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for the blessings which my family and I have received through the study and application of Christian Science.
" Tumors , ulcers, tubercles, inflammation, pain, deformed joints, are waking dream-shadows, dark images of mortal thought, which flee before the light of Truth," states our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 418 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " With deep gratitude for the privilege of having proved to some degree the above statement in my own experience, I present the following facts in the hope that they may be helpful to others.