Testimonies of Healing
In 1914 one of the leading physicians of New York state told me that a trip to another climate would perhaps be of some help to me; so I started for California with plenty of luggage, mostly mental, which included belief in a complication of rheumatic infections of eight years' standing, catarrh of the stomach, severe eye trouble, fallen arches, and other ailments. One year later I returned, none the better for my trip, and it was then that I was entirely healed through the application of Christian Science.
It is with a grateful heart that I write this testimony. My first healing took place a number of years ago.
My gratitude for Christian Science and for our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, is unbounded and is my reason for giving this testimony. Christian Science has met my every need for more than thirteen years, and I know it will continue to do so as long as it is rightly applied.
With all my heart I rejoice in this opportunity of thanking God most deeply. I am so overwhelmed by my wonderful healing that it is not easy for me to express my boundless thanks in words.
In the beginning of the year 1916 I had reached, so it seemed to me, the limit of discontent. An acquaintance, knowing of this, recommended that I read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
For about twelve years I have been a student of Christian Science, but I have benefited by its ministrations off and on all my life. One of my earliest recollections is of being healed of a fever.
When I was eighteen years old. spells of dimness affected my eyesight.
It is with sincere gratitude that I offer this testimony to the healing power of Truth, as revealed in the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. My first healing was of hernia, from which I had suffered for several years.
Twenty-three years ago I walked into a friend's garden and there I found, lying on a seat, a little book. I picked it up and immediately became immersed in it.
The desire to be more obedient to Article VIII, Section 6, of the Church Manual and a recent experience have taught me the necessity of obedience to Mrs. Eddy's admonition in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.