Testimonies of Healing

In the spring of 1918, as I had not regained my normal state of health following a major operation some six years previous, I became obsessed with a morbid fear of losing my son, a boy of eight years of age, who was frail and delicate and almost constantly under the care of physicians. At a seemingly critical time for him, I became very ill with yellow jaundice, pleurisy, and pneumonia, and was being attended by a physician.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude for Christian Science and for its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, whose love for and fidelity to good enabled her to be the revelator of Truth to this age, that I send this testimony. While traveling in a southern state, I met a friend whom I had not seen for some time.

I began the study of Christian Science several years ago, not for physical healing, but because of its beautiful, absolute, spiritual teaching, revealing truths I had hoped in vain to find in my former church. However, in a short time I was overjoyed to find that just through reading, accepting as true, and obeying what I understood of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was healed of the aftereffects of an operation performed a short time before our son was born.

I am grateful to be able to testify to the healing and regenerative power of Christian Science. I have always been thankful for a healing of disease which took place about twenty years ago, although I did not take up the study of Christian Science at that time.

With gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me, I give the following testimony with the hope that it may encourage another who is seeking peace from constant fear. When I first became interested in Christian Science, I had been having spells of extreme fear, seeming at first to arise from an abnormal fear of disease.

Eighteen years ago I suddenly became very ill with nephritis and cardiac weakness and had to stay away from my work almost a year, for I could not seem to regain my strength, in spite of the sincere efforts of various doctors. These serious illnesses recurred in a similar guise every five years, until eight years ago, when things were so bad, to all appearances, that the doctors gave me up.

I trust my testimony will help others to gain an understanding of God's power as taught in Christian Science. Over three years ago I was taken to the hospital with a very severe case of diabetes.

I wish to vouch for my mother's wonderful healing through Christian Science. Besides having a so-called diabetic rash over her body she had a severe hemorrhage of the brain.

In the world of human affairs, when one unburdens himself of his difficulties to a friend, that friend listens with sympathy, and if he knows any way out that will be helpful he is glad to call attention to it. The student of Christian Science is always willing to tell what confidence in God, as revealed through Christian Science, has done for him.

Words are inadequate to express my gratitude for all the healings and blessings which Christian Science has brought into my life. It has indeed been proved to me that "man's extremity is God's opportunity.