Testimonies of Healing

It would take many pages to relate the wonderful demonstrations that have been made in my family through the understanding of Christian Science. I should like to recount a few that remain uppermost in my thought.

Christian Science came to me at a time when there seemed to be no happiness or any reason for hope left in the world for me. I was in great sorrow, having been told by a number of physicians that my elder child, a girl eleven years of age, could not live, and that medical science had done all that could be done for her.

In the fall of 1924 divine Love led me to Christian Science. I had been suffering for about fourteen years from articular rheumatism and debility.

For over twenty-eight years I have been a student of Christian Science, and have always enjoyed reading the testimonies in the Journal and Sentinel, not only as a record of the good work going on throughout the world, but also as a help in my own growth, as I have at times found a thought there that just met my need. But I have realized that I cannot go on receiving good without also giving out good that it may be beneficial to someone else.

" Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. " Fifteen years ago, when weary in mind, weak and sick in body, dissatisfied with religion as I then understood it, disillusioned, and utterly tired of material existence, I began my acquaintance with God through the teaching of Christian Science.

Christian Science has helped me so many times and in so many ways that I am sure that without it I could never have come through as I have. I first started the study of this Science nineteen years ago, when I was traveling with a theatrical company.

The healing power of Christian Science has been so clearly apparent in my experience that I should like to record an expression of profound gratitude for what I firmly believe to be this great spiritual teaching. Although I have known of Christian Science all my life, and time and again have enjoyed its multitudinous blessings in the way of protection and instantaneous healings, it was not until twelve years ago that I felt the effect of its redemptive and saving power sufficiently to realize fully the meaning of these inspiring, yet commanding words of Paul in his second epistle to the Corinthians: "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

To listen to someone while he audibly voices the truth is often the means of healing, for confidence and assurance are inspired thereby. One Sunday afternoon a lecture on Christian Science was given in a public auditorium.

I was confined to my bed for nearly twenty years with what the physicians called female trouble in its severest form. Some days I was not able to sit up.

"And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea I see Christ walk, And come to me, and tenderly, Divinely talk. " The spirit of these comforting words from the poem "Christ My Refuge" (Poems, p.