Testimonies of Healing
My first testimony appeared in the August 24, 1912, Sentinel . The healing recounted there has been permanent.
During the more than thirty years since Christian Science was introduced to our home, we have had many proofs of the healing and protecting power of its teaching. Early proofs of this power came to us in physical healing, of which the family was in great need.
" Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy" ( Ps. 107:2 ).
The desire to tell of my appreciation and love for Christian Science has been uppermost in my thoughts for some time. I wish to begin with gratitude to God for membership in The Mother Church.
After depending on Christian Science to meet our needs, we would find it impossible to get along without it. I have applied it to almost every type of problem, and it has never failed.
" Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God" ( II Cor. 1:3, 4 ).
I Should like to submit this testimony as a token of obedience. I have come to hold this quality in high regard since receiving a healing which was manifestly due to the simple desire to be obedient.
I am grateful for Christian Science. I have not wavered from it in twenty-five years, no matter what the problem.
For a year after I had seen the truth of Christian Science in action and acknowledged it, I maintained that so far as I was concerned there was nothing wrong with smoking tobacco and I was quite happy to partake of both Science and tobacco. I did find, however, that I became irritated while listening to testimonies given at Wednesday meetings by people who stated they had been healed of the smoking habit.
If I could enumerate all the blessings that Christian Science has brought into my life in the last twenty years, they would fill a volume. But this I can tell, that it has healed all kinds of diseases, made our home a happier, more harmonious place, given us the right concept of supply, and enriched our lives in many ways.