Testimonies of Healing
One afternoon, when at work in the garden, I accidentally disturbed a wasp nest and as a result was stung four or five times on the face and once on the hand. The first frantic efforts at physical defense against the attack quickly subsided before the remembered fact, learned in Christian Science, that in every human circumstance the truth is immediately available to deal with and destroy anything and everything erroneous.
I can never say how grateful I am that Christian Science was brought to me. In September, 1933, my son was lying in a hospital seriously ill with enteric fever and several complications, each one of which the doctors said was sufficient in itself to be fatal After five weeks, when I was desperate, a neighbor came to me and asked whether I would care to see a Christian Science practitioner.
The testimonies of healing published in our periodicals were such a source of strength to me during a long period of trial, that I love to tell of the wonderful healing and awakening that finally came to me, with the hope that it may assure others who are "lab'ring long and lone" (Poems by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 14 ).
Every student of Christian Science has cause to sing praise to the most High for His wonderful works made manifest through the study and application of the truths set forth in Science and Health. I turned to Christian Science for physical healing after two and a half years of continuous medical treatment for a condition which so baffled the physicians that they were talking of sending me to an out-of-town hospital for observation and treatment.
About four years ago, after one serious major operation, I was told that another one would have to be performed immediately. All that could be promised afterward was simply a regaining of consciousness.
I am deeply grateful for all the good that has come to me since I took up the study of Christian Science. My wife and I began this study at the same time—another blessing for which we are both very grateful, as we have been able to help each other through many trials of faith.
It is with sincere gratitude that I should like to tell of a healing of phlebitis which I had over a year ago. It was another opportunity calling for spiritual growth.
It is a joyous privilege to express my gratitude for Christian Science. This truth was first presented to me when I was in great need of physical healing.
With the help of a Christian Science practitioner I was healed of a complete nervous and physical breakdown, after being confined to my bed the greater part of the time for a number of years. I had finally become so weak that I could neither sleep nor eat, and as all material methods, including an operation, had failed, I consented to try Christian Science.
I feel that gratitude for my healing in Christian Science will not be complete until I give thanks to God, the Giver of all good, "who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. " Up to the time I took up the study of Christian Science I was always under a doctor's care, but there came a time when materia medica failed to meet my needs.