Testimonies of Healing
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE has been my only help for over seventeen years. We have had many proofs of its healing power.
IT has long been my desire to express gratitude for many blessings received since taking up the study of Christian Science. Before knowing of this Science, I was never well.
FOR twenty years I attended the Christian Science church, always turning to its teachings for help whenever anything serious presented itself, but I was a dormant student and church member. Finally there came a time when physical trouble —violent sick headaches, constipation, and painful internal hemorrhoids—did not yield readily to treatment.
ABOUT ten years ago a member of my family was very ill, and after two years, when doctors of medicine were of no avail and we did not know where to turn, this person sought the help of a Christian Science practitioner and soon thereafter was in normal health. This was very wonderful to me, and while it made a lasting impression, I did not at the time ask any questions as to how the healing was accomplished.
IT is with a heart full of gratitude that I wish to acknowledge what Christian Science has done for me and mine. It was brought to my attention for the first time by a friend who had been leaving literature for my mother, who had been suffering from asthma for many years.
IT seems at times that no one has more reason than I for deep thankfulness for Christian Science, which found me when life seemed useless and all efforts futile. I was standing, as it were, on the curbstone of life, watching the world's hurrying and scurrying for a purpose it could not itself logically define.
IN grateful acknowledgment of what Christian Science has done for me in the past years and is still doing, I give this testimony. I took up the study of Christian Science for a condition which had been diagnosed as nervousness, causing severe stomach trouble and extreme melancholia.
MY mother and I became interested in Christian Science over fourteen years ago. She had been physically weak since the time of my birth and suddenly became paralyzed from her hips down.
MY coming into Christian Science was not for physical healing, but to gain a better understanding of God. My first attendance at a Christian Science service proved to me that I had found the truth, and in a short period proof of its healing power came to me.
TWELVE years ago I began seriously the study of Christian Science, not for the healing of any particular ailment, but more in the search for a haven into which might be guided a wayward and rudderless ship, such as I felt myself to be. During these twelve years, however, I have had many proofs of the healing power and protective care of our loving Father-Mother God, as revealed to us by our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.