Testimonies of Healing

My first knowledge of Christian Science came not through a healing, but because the seed was sown when I was visiting in a western city. It was only three months afterwards, however, when I was in a hospital and was not expected to live, that I called upon Christian Science for healing.

A little over three years ago a coworker handed me a Christian Science Sentinel which I read from cover to cover. Then, after attending one Wednesday evening testimony meeting and a lecture on the following day, I sought a Christian Science practitioner.

When Christian Science came to me I was living continually in a state of despair, and was constantly depressed by fears of various kinds. My first healing took place soon after I became interested in this wonderful truth.

Over twenty-four years ago, when we were struggling in darkness with seemingly endless suffering, one of our neighbors asked us to try Christian Science, of which we had never heard. As a relative who had been paralyzed was in the hospital, not expected to live, and I was under medical treatment for kidney trouble of long standing, also a nervous breakdown, we quickly decided to give it a trial.

Christian Science has increased my understanding of the Bible and has taught me the ever present availability of divine Love to meet our needs. The wonderful healing of a goiter of many years' standing will always be remembered not only for the physical freedom, but for the lesson it taught me by proving Mrs.

For some time I have desired to add my word of thanks for the great benefits I have received from Christian Science. The study was not taken up for a physical healing, although that seemed to be very much needed, but I was searching earnestly for a religion that was satisfying and practical.

When a member of my family wrote me from Saxony about Christian Science in 1921, it was the first time I had ever heard of this religion. I was at once very much interested in it and made use of the address given me to learn more about it.

I learned of Christian Science through the healing of a tubercular hip. When I was a child at boarding school I slipped on the stairs and injured a hip, and this injury later on developed into tuberculosis of the hip.

Out of deep gratitude for Christian Science and for the many blessings received through it I wish to give the following testimony. In 1921 I fell severely ill with stomach and intestinal ulcers.

It has long been my desire to relate some of the many blessings that Christian Science has brought me. At the time of my first knowledge of this truth, some thirty years ago, I thought of it only as a beautiful, satisfying religion which gave me that peace of mind for which I longed.