Testimonies of Healing
Chiristian Science came to me in answer to prayer. From childhood I had read the Scriptures and had learned to love them, but as I grew older I was unable to accept some of the interpretations put upon them by the orthodox church of which I was then a member.
The light of Truth dawned for me the first week I began reading Science and Health. I had borrowed the book just for the purpose of finding out what Christian Science meant and how it compared with my own religion.
Christian Science has brought so many blessings into my life and so many lovely healings that it would take innumerable pages to recount them all. One of the greatest of these was the privilege of attending a Christian Science Sunday School for four years.
I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing, although an internal disorder, which might have led to serious complications, yielded when I gained a desire for the truth about God and man's relationship to Him and the universe as expounded by our great Master. As I look back upon the past six years, since taking up the study of Christian Science, I know that nothing else can ever take its place in solving not only my own problems but those of all mankind as well.
Many have been the blessings received and the lessons learned since I began the study of Christian Science some years ago. I have had many physical healings for which I am indeed grateful, but I am much more grateful to have a growing knowledge of a religion which I can take with me every day, everywhere, and which is available to meet my every need and solve all my problems.
With deep gratitude I give this testimony. In 1917 my wife gave me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
More than twenty years ago I came into Christian Science, not for a physical healing, though since then I have received many healings, but seeking peace; and Christian Science not only gave me that peace "which passeth all understanding," but it eliminated many errors, such as a temperamental disposition, a belief of possession, and a sense of boredom. It has healed me of worldly ambition, and in its place has given me a great sense of love and humility.
Time and space would fail me to tell of the countless blessings that have come to me through Christian Science. I have had many physical healings as a result of my study and application of the truth about God and man.
It is a joyous privilege for me to express my gratitude for Christian Science by telling of some demonstrations that I have experienced. Through reading the Christian Science textbook I was healed of what the medical fraternity called tuberculosis.
The testimonies in our periodicals and those given at the Wednesday evening meetings have so often helped and encouraged me that I, too, should like to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has meant to me during the years that I have been a student of this wonderful truth. When in England some years ago I was spending a short time with a friend who was studying Christian Science, but although I had heard about it I was not at all interested and did not desire to know more about it.