Testimonies of Healing
Several years ago, when apparently well and strong, I suddenly became an invalid, suffering frequent fainting spells and extreme nervousness. After many kind physicians, in various cities, had tried medicines, rest cure, baths, diet, electricity, osteopathy, and finally an exploratory operation, the illness continued.
I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for what it has done for me in the past eighteen years. I came into Science at the age of seventeen, after talking with a lady who had been healed of a broken hip without medical aid.
As an expression of gratitude for Christian Science and its many beneficent activities I send this testimony. I have always enjoyed what would be considered a peaceful home, but since Christian Science has been used in governing it, peace and harmony have been experienced, in spite of most severe trials.
The healing efficacy of Christian Science and the protection afforded its adherents are to me cause for much gratitude. In her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 ( p.
My greatest cause for gratitude is that my parents learned of Christian Science before I was born, thus giving me the privilege of attending the Christian Science Sunday School for the full number of years allowed. A few years ago I had a very wonderful experience.
It was during the winter of 1922 that I first became interested in Christian Science. My wife and I, with our three half-grown children, were then living in a large midwestern city.
Christian Science was presented to me by a loving friend when I sent for her to come and explain it to me. I was in great despair, suffering from rheumatism for which several doctors said they could do no more.
In November, 1932, I suffered severely with the fifth attack of stone in the kidney. I had been having these attacks about every two weeks, each one being more severe than the last one.
With the thought of trying to help others I should like to relate an experience which I had with our youngest daughter during the first month after our turning to Christian Science about six years ago. She was then two and a half years of age, and was very good about playing and amusing herself.
In April, 1922, I was in the position where all material streams were dry. Through the constant desire to understand life aright, I was continually praying in the words of the Psalm, "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me.