Testimonies of Healing

With a heart full of deep gratitude I want to bear witness to all the blessings I have received through Christian Science. This Science was brought to my notice one day when I was in bed with an acute attack of enteritis.

With sincere appreciation of the teachings of Christian Science and their healing message I wish to offer this belated testimony. My parents became interested in Christian Science in 1902, at which time my father was literally raised from the dead after he had been bedfast for five months and the physicians in our home town and a neighboring city had said he was dying.

For more than twenty-five years it has been a joy to express appreciation and gratitude for Christian Science, on several occasions, at the Wednesday evening testimony meetings. I now desire to present my written testimony, hoping, in a more expansive way, to tell something of the great benefits that have come to me through my years of study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and other writings by Mary Baker Eddy.

Although this testimony is being given at rather a late date, there has constantly been in my consciousness a feeling of deep gratitude for the beautiful healing I had some years ago. I retired one evening feeling physically well, but with a great sense of mental depression.

The healing power of Christian Science has been proved to me many times, and I wish to express my gratitude and acknowledge through these pages what it has done for me. A few years ago I started attending the Christian Science church.

With very deep gratitude I express my appreciation of the message of Christian Science. On page 494 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we are told that "divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

Ten years ago, after the birth of my son, I was in constant ill-health for a period of two years. When he was four months old I was taken in an ambulance to a hospital for an X ray and observation.

I am happy and grateful to confirm my wife's remarks relating to my healing. I was first enabled to realize my freedom in 1923 through the clear understanding of a practitioner.

Christian Science has indeed been the "pearl of great price" in my life and home. My first outstanding healing was that of gallstones some seventeen years ago, after an operation had proved ineffectual.

In the year 1911, while I was near death, a Christian Scientist found me in the borderland of the then undeveloped Everglades. I had gone there on a homestead, and had fallen victim to fever.