Testimonies of Healing

I Wish to express my gratitude to God; to Christ Jesus, the Way-shower; to our dearly beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and to the practitioners who are ever on the field ready to help us see the light of Truth and Love, revealed through Christian Science. I have proved beyond a doubt the truthfulness of the facts given us by our beloved Leader in her writings.

Jesus said, "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. " When I was a small child, a dear grandmother, who' was a Christian Scientist, kept her light of faith and understanding so brightly shining in our home, even in the midst of misunderstanding and opposition, that now I have come to glorify our Father in heaven.

I LEARNED of Christian Science when I was in my teens, and I can never feel grateful enough for its help and guidance during the last twenty years. I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical healing, but because I had had a miserable and unhappy childhood, and felt a great need of care, guidance, and protection.

When Christian Science was presented to me, I was surrounded by materia medica, having in the family a physician, and also a druggist who owned and operated a drugstore. I had exhausted the resources of medical science in an effort to find my way out of a maze of encumbering difficulties that had assailed me from childhood.

Christian Science was brought to my attention over thirty-five years ago, when I was in "the valley of the shadow of death. " After trying all the material remedies which offered any hope, I was sick, helpless, and ready to die.

Having received so much benefit from reading the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals, I wish publicly to express gratitude through this means for the many blessings which the study and application of Christian Science have brought into my life, with the thought that perhaps my experience may be helpful to others. Many years ago I witnessed a healing of tuberculosis of the bowels through Christian Science, and this must have in some way prepared my thought for the acceptance of this Science.

For all the blessings I have received through Christian Science I am deeply and inexpressibly grateful. I feel I have much to be thankful for besides physical healings.

From early childhood I had been yearning for a satisfying religion. I had investigated many different denominations and cults, but, with due respect to all of them, I must admit that each one interested me only for a little while.

For some time at my place of business so many demands were made upon me that I had insufficient time to do my own work properly, and consequently I seemed to be under constant nervous tension. There were days when I felt I should be at home, on account of poor health, but the work was of such a nature that it accumulated during my absence, and I preferred to be at my post.

I became interested in the study of Christian Science more than thirty-five years ago, when a dear friend gave me a Sentinel. I read it all; but nothing seemed to appeal to me until I came to the last page.