Testimonies of Healing

Our Leader tells us on page 206 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" that "in the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all. " With faith in the truth of this statement I desire to share with readers of our periodicals some of the blessings which have come to me as I have endeavored to apply the teachings of Christian Science.

After fifteen months of suffering from a nervous breakdown, caused by a complication of diseases which had not only wrecked me mentally and physically, but my business as well, and after trying every material remedy suggested and prescribed by some of the best medical men in this country, I finally returned to my home convinced that material means offered no help for me. At this time Christian Science was recommended to me, and when asked if I would try it I answered, "I am willing to try anything.

In deepest gratitude I wish to exclaim with the Psalmist: "Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.

Since I began the study of Christian Science the blessings that have been bestowed upon me have been many. The earnest study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, freed me from a troublesome disease which had bound me intermittently for seven years.

Every day presents for the Christian Scientist an opportunity for thanksgiving. For over twenty years I have received the blessings that a knowledge of Christian Science brings to one.

My first healing in Christian Science was of constipation, and it came about through the daily study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. I had been studying but a few weeks when I realized that I was healed.

In the seventeen years during which I have been studying Christian Science I have had many physical healings, and it is therefore with a deep sense of gratitude that I write this testimony. When Christian Science found me I was in a very depressed mental state; life seemed almost hopeless, and everything seemed to be getting more and more difficult.

It is with the greatest sense of gratitude that I add my testimony of what the healing power of Christian Science has been to me and mine; for before I knew of this truth which does make free, many were the days, weeks, and months I was confined to my bed suffering with severe attacks of gallstones and various other troubles. But there came a time when the physician said that an operation was imperative if I was to remain with my family.

Since my first healing through Christian Science, more than twenty years ago, I have had healings of many kinds — mental, moral, physical, and financial. I can here touch upon only a few which to me have seemed the most wonderful.

I came into Christian Science, not because of a physical healing— though I felt in need of that — but because I loved it and believed it to be the truth. It seemed to me logical and beautiful, and I felt that adherence to it could not fail to benefit me and others.