Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science is the foundation of all that is good and worthy and happy in my life. To demonstrate the truth of its teachings is my whole purpose in life, and I should like to express my gratitude in written form for the innumerable blessings it has brought me.

It is truly a privilege to testify to the power of Truth, and I want to say that I am a living witness of its healing power. It was brought to me when I was standing in the very shadow of death.

Each day finds me increasingly grateful for the moment, more than twenty years ago, when Christian Science first came to my attention. I was not at that time in need of any physical healing, but felt a vague need for more spiritual living, which my years of membership in an orthodox church did not seem to satisfy.

I rejoice in the opportunity for expressing gratitude given by the Christian Science periodicals. When Christian Science was first presented to me I received it with great joy.

When quite young I attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting with a Christian Scientist at her urgent but loving request. A testimony of the healing of besotted drunkenness when all else had failed him, given by a fine-looking, alert, intelligent man, make a deep impression on me, and I decided right then that if ever all else failed in my experience I too would turn to Christian Science.

One morning in the spring of 1910, my husband came home and told me of this experience. He said that early in the evening one of the men came into the office and asked if he might use the telephone.

I send this testimony with a heart full of gratitude for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science. For four years, 1894-1898, I suffered from gallstones.

My first healing through Christian Science was of an internal exopthalmics stone goiter, after I had been under the care of skilled physicians and specialists without relief over a period of thirteen years. Physicians agreed that there was nothing that could be done for me, and the outlook was most disheartening and hopeless.

I wish to express sincere gratitude for the multitude of blessings received through the application of Christian Science; gratitude to our Father-Mother God for His loving guidance and protection; to Jesus, our Exemplar; to Mary Baker Eddy for her life consecrated to God, and her untiring toil in giving us the spiritual interpretation of the Bible. To understand God and to see the fulfillment of my dearly loved childhood hymn, "One Shepherd and one fold," grew stronger in me during the first World War, when God appeared to be partial, unloving, unjust, and helpless to adjust the then prevailing unpleasant world conditions.

I never had been awakened to what deep and lasting gratitude really meant until I began to demonstrate the unreality of sickness and sin through the understanding of Christian Science. Many years ago our little two-year-old boy became ill with what doctors diagnosed as pleural pneumonia.