Testimonies of Healing

Twenty years ago my family and I thought the end was very near for me, after I had suffered nearly a lifetime of weakness and misery culminating in consumption of the blood. When the doctors could do no more, we tried the methods of semimetaphysical systems with no improvement, and at last my mother called in a Christian Science practitioner.

Eight years ago I became interested in Christian Science, and since then we have experienced many healings in our home. My son was healed of a tendency to take cold easily, usually resulting in pneumonia.

I give this testimony with a desire to express my sincere gratitude to God, and to share with others the abundance of good I have received from the study and application of the truth as taught in Christian Science. This beautiful teaching has been the means of my completely overcoming many discordant physical and moral conditions.

We read in the Scriptures, "And a little child shall lead them. " It is with a heart full of gratitude that I tender this testimony to the little child that led me to a Christian Science church, which might be called a temple of gratitude.

Through a better understanding of God, Christian Science has been revealing health, harmony, and true happiness to me in increasing measure for over twenty-three years. Our Leader writes in Science and Health (p.

Christian Science was presented to me when it was most needed, and when it seemed as if I had no way to turn, no one to whom I could go for employment, due to false appetites for alcohol and tobacco, which had held me in bondage for a period of twenty years. Lack, disappointment, discontent, and hate, all seemed to bind me.

Words are inadequate to express my heartfelt gratitude for the physical healings, inspiration, and spiritual awakening which I have received through the study and application of Christian Science. What I am most truly grateful for is the true concept of God which I have gained through the joy of loving and serving my neighbor; also the sheer joy of living that has come to me.

My first healing in Christian Science has always been outstanding to me. The Sunday on which I first attended a church service, I sprained an ankle while alighting from a streetcar.

Christian Science has so entirely changed my life that I desire to add my testimony of gratitude for its healing and regenerating power. From childhood I had been delicate, and later developed an organic trouble of which the attention of eleven doctors and two London specialists, and a surgical operation, failed to relieve me.

In 1929 Christian Science came to me as a direct answer to prayer. I should like to relate this healing, for it was a joyous one, and I shall always remember my being so uplifted and free, because I so clearly felt and realized the nearness and ever-presence of our loving Father-Mother God.