Testimonies of Healing

It is time that I acknowledged to "the great congregation" the continuous help Christian Science has been to me for about twenty-seven years. My introduction to Science and Health came when I was asked to read it aloud to a friend.

In the fall of 1915 I came to America from war-torn scenes and over mine-infested waters. In retrospect I can clearly see now how much like a little heap of negative clay I seemed to be at the time, continually attracting in that state of mesmerism new phases of the same old lie of evil as real and as having power.

During the past seven years Christian Science has met my every need. I am sincerely grateful for the many blessings which have come into my experience.

I have experienced so many wonderful healings and blessings through the study and application of Christian Science during the last eighteen years, that I should seem most ungrateful did I not express gratitude for these experiences. Some time ago, while I was working in a factory, a filter containing a chemical—of which about seventy-five per cent was acid—was blown out, and the contents were thrown directly into my face and eyes.

Breaking the chains which a man imposes upon himself through mortal beliefs gives us cause for rejoicing in our knowledge of the true bonds of Love, as revealed to us through Christian Science. I have known something of this Science all of my life, but have not always adhered as closely to the study and practice of its teachings as I might have done.

In the Preface to our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read the wonderful words ( p. vii ), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.

It is always a joy for Christian Scientists to bear witness to the healing power of the truth as revealed by our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. For the last twenty years my life has been proof that Christian Science does heal.

Before I heard of Christian Science, two specialists had told me that my eyesight was so defective that I should always have to wear glasses. After reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, for a few months, I began to see that everything which God has made is perfect; that He is the only creator, and that He preserves and protects His creation.

Twelve years ago Christian Science was first presented to me. At this time I was in a very depressed state of thought over the passing on of my mother.

In gratitude for what Christian Science did for me about fifteen years ago, I wish to give my testimony in the hope that it may help others. I received a shock which mentally deranged me for about a year.