Testimonies of Healing

About fourteen years ago my wife and I were stationed on an extremely small island in the Pacific Ocean, where conditions seemed quite inharmonious. We found that we were unable to improve matters by moving to another town and post of duty on the island.

I feel that it is my duty to give a short account of the wonderful healings that I have had through Christian Science. On the last day of January, 1932, I met with a serious motorcycle accident, in which one of my legs and a collar bone were broken; I also had concussion of the brain.

In March, 1929, I was diagnosed by a leading university clinic as having tuberculosis in both lungs, complicated by a tubercular larynx; and I immediately went to a sanitarium which they recommended, and at which I spent seven weeks. After a great deal of unrest and dissatisfaction, and on the advice of my physician, I left this climate for the higher altitude of New Mexico, where I spent four months in another sanitarium.

Over thirty-five years ago I was healed in Christian Science after I had undergone two surgical operations, and was told that without a third one I could live only a few months. The doctor afterward exclaimed in utter astonishment, "I don't see how they did it, for yours was no imaginary disease.

When I was a small child—supposedly frail and delicate, surrounded by overanxious care and fears, never out of physicians' hands, and having at that early age experience of operations and nursing homes—Christian Science came to lighten our darkness; and at once, through the spiritualizing of thought in the home, restored me to normal, active, happy childhood. I have since needed no physician but the truth, nor have I consulted any except on two occasions when a medical report was desired from students by school and college authorities.

Christian Science has met our every need for the past nineteen years, and I am more than grateful to have had the privilege of finding it at an early date, when I was enabled to place the children at the age of three in the Sunday school, where they grew up in this blessed truth. However, I applied Science before they entered the Sunday school, so they have never had material aid in times of sickness; but when the difficulty seemed too real for me to overcome I was always blessed with the help of a practitioner.

Christian Science was brought into our home when I was a small child, through the healing of my father of stomach and bowel trouble. After he had been given up to die by many physicians he was completely healed through Christian Science treatment.

Fifteen years ago a disease came upon my body causing me great pain. A kind lady offered to work for me in Christian Science, saying that the disease would permanently disappear.

It is my prayer that this message of gratitude go to the farthest corner of the globe, to inspire the downhearted to do what I did to get my healing of an illness said by two doctors to be incurable. In June, 1931, I was taken with very serious heart trouble.

My first introduction to Christian Science came in 1923. I had returned home from college almost a mental and physical wreck.