Testimonies of Healing
" There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear" ( I John 4:18 ). There was a period in my life when all material security seemed to be gone.
The many blessings I have received through the study of Christian Science prompt me to submit this testimony of healing with the hope that someone experiencing difficulties similar to mine may derive benefit from it. I am most grateful for Christian Science.
That Christian Science can meet every human need, I have amply proved in my own personal experience. I suddenly found myself alone in the world with two little children to rear, having lost four members of my immediate family in less than five years, the last of the four being the father of the two children.
For nearly a quarter of a century many problems in our home have been solved through the application of Christian Science. The healings mentioned in my wife's testimony are true, and others not enumerated are to me even a greater source of gratitude.
It is a number of years since I had my first healing, an almost instantaneous one, through the power of Christian Science. Before becoming acquainted with Science, as Mrs.
My heart is full of gratitude for Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. I am deeply grateful for the physical healings I have had in Science, but especially for the spiritual understanding that man is made in the image and likeness of God and that the real man is sinless.
It is many years since my testimony first appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel . These years have been filled with blessings and with progress in the understanding of this great discovery of the ages, Christian Science.
It is with heartfelt gratitude that I acknowledge the healing power of Christian Science, through which innumerable discordant conditions, physical, financial, and social, have been overcome and the harmony of the Christ-presence has been manifested. The disappearance of false appetites gave the greatest impetus to my progress in demonstrating the truth revealed in the study of this wonderful Science.
I want to express publicly my gratitude to the one who pointed the way of healing, Christian Science, to me at a time when it seemed as if all were lost. I had exhausted the very best efforts of medical authorities in the treatment of asthma.
Many people ask, when thinking of trying Christian Science for the first time, if one has to have faith to be healed. From my own experience I answer "No.