Testimonies of Healing

It is with deep gratitude that I wish to testify to all the good that has come to my family and me through the study and application of Christian Science. While I was in the army in 1918 my wife took up the study of this Science, and when I returned home in 1919 I began studying the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly and attending church with her.

Christian Science found me when I was discouraged and ready to give up. One day when I was very ill a lady asked me to try Christian Science.

I have been reading with joy and thankfulness the many helpful testimonies of healing through the application of the truth as taught in Christian Science. I have also been rejoicing with all the writers in the freedom from sin and sickness which this truth brings; and yet I have never before sent my testimony of that same healing power, which came into our home twenty years ago.

For the past fifteen years I have been a student of all the writings of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and this study and application has brought me countless blessings. Previous to the time that I turned to Christian Science for healing from a nervous breakdown, I had not attended any church nor looked into a Bible for about fifteen years.

I first became interested in Christian Science through the benefits which I saw come to my wife through its application. I read Science and Health and was much impressed but I was not quite ready to turn to this Science for healing.

I can never cease to be grateful for Christian Science, because, through its teachings, we are enabled to overcome our problems and be healed of sin and sickness. Three years ago my life was despaired of by two doctors, who agreed that an operation was absolutely necessary to save my life, as I was suffering from gastric trouble and an ulcerated bowel, a condition which the doctors considered was very serious and might prove fatal.

All that I am and have I owe to the understanding of God and His image and likeness, man, as revealed to us through the study of christian Science. Though the progress our family has made during a period of over eight years has been seemingly slow at times, the help of a practitioner has made it possible for us to meet every discord with very little outside help for two years.

It is a joy and a sacred privilege to testify to the healing efficacy of Christian Science. About eleven years ago I was encouraged to try Christian Science for the healing of a complete mental and physical breakdown.

We read in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 342 ) that Christian Science "raises from the couch of pain the helpless invalid.

I first heard of Christian Science about fourteen years ago. I had been given up by seven doctors, all of whom told my husband that there was nothing more to do for me.