Testimonies of Healing

Over three years ago I was completely discouraged. I had not been feeling well for some time and was gradually growing worse.

I am deeply grateful for what Christian Science has done for me and is doing for mankind. It came to me when I was in sore need of physical help.

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for the many times that I have received help. I also wish to relate one or two of my experiences since taking up the study of Christian Science.

Christian Science found me in a hospital recovering from an emergency operation for appendicitis, after they had said that blood poisoning had set in. My mother, at that time the only one in our immediate household who had heard of Christian Science and its beneficent healing influence, in her extremity turned to a Christian Science practitioner for aid in removing the fears which thronged for admittance to her thought.

As a child I took great interest in reading about the healing works of our Master, as they are recorded for us in the New Testament. Then in later years, when a great deal of disease and heartache occurred in our family, I often thought how happy was the situation in Jesus' time, when people could take their sick ones to him.

I have had so many healings through Christian Science that it is difficult to know which to mention first. Soon after I returned from England in 1920 typhoid fever manifested itself.

In the fall of 1913 my mother-in-law asked me to try Christian Science for chronic constipation. I knew nothing about Christian Science, but to please her I went to a practitioner and was healed in one treatment.

In my early childhood I knew nothing of Christian Science, and very little of any religion. When I was still quite young I became a member of an orthodox church.

When Christian Science was first brought to my attention about eighteen years ago I was a slave to tobacco, having used it constantly since childhood. As I grew older I began to realize that there was nothing beneficial in the use of tobacco, for I saw that it was becoming injurious to my health and detrimental to my social respect.

I, too , feel impelled to give thanks for the great good which has come into my life since I began studying Christian Science. In a time of great need, when my husband was very ill and had to live apart from me, loving friends drew our attention to Christian Science.