Testimonies of Healing
I have so often been helped by testimonies which I have read in the Christian Science periodicals that it has seemed as if I could ".
In the spring of 1914, after about two months of honest study of Science and Health, I was healed of the tobacco habit, and from that time to this there has been no desire for smoking in any form. Right after this experience followed the healing of weak eyesight, headaches, dizziness in hot weather, influenza, and several other ailments.
I wish to express my sincere appreciation of Christian Science and for all the good that it has brought to me and to our home. I am grateful beyond words for many healings of physical limitations; for the Christian Science Sunday School, where our three children are being brought up and taught to work out their own problems with their understanding of the truth; for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church; and to our revered Leader, who through great self-sacrifice revealed this demonstrable truth to us all.
I should like to express my sincere gratitude for Christian Science by relating a healing which I experienced. When a youth I was in an accident in which I lost part of one limb.
My heart is so filled with joy and gratitude for the wonderful blessings that have been mine in the past that I want to share it with the readers of the Journal . In the year 1886 my mother, who had been a semi-invalid the greater part of her life, went to a Christian Science practitioner for treatment, but not receiving any physical benefit, she decided that Christian Science was too deep for her.
Among my earliest recollections are discussions of religion among my parents and grandparents. It was but natural that in this openminded and inquiring atmosphere Christian Science should have early made its appearance.
For some time I have felt the urge to express my gratitude for all the blessings Christian Science has bestowed upon me during the past eleven years and to do it in such a way that it may reach out and bless others. In 1922 my mother was healed of a severe case of quinsy, a complaint which had caused her much suffering every winter for years.
About eight years ago my attention was drawn to Christian Science by the wonderful healing of an acquaintance who, by means of Christian Science treatment, had been healed of cancer of the stomach. At that time I was a sick woman.
Many and varied have been the benefits I have received from the study and application of Christian Science during the past quarter of a century. We were a sickly family and much of my early life was spent in suffering and seeing others suffer.
Christian Science has brought me so many benefits that I see the time has come for me to add my testimony to those of others. Over fifteen years ago I was led to visit the only Christian Scientist in our town.