Testimonies of Healing
In 1918 my testimony was published in the Journal . It told of my healing, through Christian Science, of cancer after I had endured two operations and the doctor had declared that a third one was necessary.
I owe to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gratitude which words cannot express, and I gratefully acknowledge all that Christian Science has done for me. Through my application of the truths it teaches, many physical ailments have yielded instantaneously; others have been slow in yielding.
" Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men" ( Ps. 107:31 ).
Jesus said ( Matt. 7:20 ), "By their fruits ye shall know them.
Having been helped so often by the testimonies in our periodicals, I tell of this experience in the hope that it may help others. At one time I was having two teeth extracted.
Thirteen years ago my husband and I went on a walking trip in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. On the third day we were forced to discontinue the trip because of a stiffness which developed in my knees, an ailment, as I have since learned, that is common to hikers.
My gratitude for Christian Science, put into words, gives only a faint glimpse of the wonderful joy that its teachings have brought into my life. The spiritual understanding of the Bible which I have gained through the intelligent explanations given in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, has been such that I find myself able to apply it to every situation with which I am confronted.
I should like to give grateful thanks for all the blessings which I have received through adherence to the teachings of Christian Science. My parents became earnest students of this healing and regenerating religion when I was an infant, with the result that all the troubles and complaints supposed to be associated with childhood were overcome by spiritual means alone, and neither medical advice nor remedies were ever resorted to in any form.
On the quotation page of her "Miscellaneous Writings" our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written a poem, the last verse of which reads (p. vii): "My world has sprung from Spirit, In everlasting day; Whereof, I've more to glory, Wherefor, have much to pay.
In Proverbs we read ( 3:6 ), "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. " How true we find this to be when we recognize God as the only power and seek to follow His guidance.