Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science first came to my attention about nineteen years ago through a member of my family who was healed through Christian Science treatments when all material remedies had failed. However, I did not take up the study of it for physical healing, but for a clearer concept of God.

Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly;" and the Psalmist sang, "They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness. " Since I took up the study of Christian Science and have been applying it, so many good and beautiful experiences have come into my life that I feel the urge to share in part these healing thoughts with others.

On many occasions during the nineteen years that I have been a student of Christian Science, I have expressed gratitude at Wednesday evening meetings in our churches for the many blessings this religion has brought to me, and I should have availed myself long ago of the further privilege of testifying to these blessings through our periodicals. When I was a reporter on a morning newspaper, I suffered a general breakdown in my health, including a severe nervous condition and incipient pulmonary trouble.

On arriving at a small town in Alaska, I attended a lecture on Christian Science and was convinced of its truth. The word did not return void, for I was immediately healed of a chronic difficulty from which I expected no relief.

After proving the Principle of Christian Science for twenty-three years, I wish to express my gratitude to God and to our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, through the periodicals which she so lovingly provided for mankind. My first healing was of headaches, which had been so severe that I usually had to stay in bed for several days at a time because of them.

Out of deep appreciation for the comfort and joy that have come to me and to my family through the study of Christian Science, I offer this testimony. It illustrates the effectiveness of this teaching in solving the problems of the business world.

With great gratitude I should like to give an account of the blessings which have come to me through Christian Science. From my earliest youth, stomach trouble had bothered me, becoming greatly aggravated from one attack to another and causing me a good deal of suffering.

I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical healing, but because I saw that it was the religion which Jesus taught, as recorded in the New Testament. It came about in this way: a friend who came to call on us later had a very bad accident.

On page 372 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, we read, "If pride, superstition, or any error prevents the honest recognition of benefits received, this will be a hindrance to the recovery of the sick and the success of the student.

Christian Science came to my notice about seven years ago. Previous to this I had heard very little about it.