Testimonies of Healing
Before taking up Christian Science I had been a great sufferer, having undergone several surgical operations and suffered many long and serious illnesses, until I was beginning to despair of ever getting well and strong again. Christian Science was brought to my notice by a dear friend after I had undergone an operation for appendicitis, which was rendered more serious because gangrene had set in, attended with serious complications that nearly proved fatal.
I have been wonderfully redeemed from error in many ways through the application of Christian Science, and I am profoundly grateful. Since coming into Christian Science many years ago I have been privileged to see the healing of many diseases, including smallpox, whooping cough, spinal disease, influenza, and two very wonderful healings of pneumonia.
On page 494 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we find these words: "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. " This statement has been proved many times.
About twenty-one years ago, after several years of intense suffering caused by stomach trouble, I purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Several years before, a friend had given my father a copy of one of the early editions, but it had never been studied or considered of practical value in solving the problems in our home.
Since childhood I had always been considered frail and delicate and of a nervous and fearful temperament. To me it seemed that the very birds and animals were freer and happier, better clothed and equipped, than men.
In 1917 I turned to Christian Science for aid, after I had been advised by doctors upon an examination for admission in the army, that I had better go to the West or I should pass on. At that time I had not the means to do as they advised and seemed to be fighting a hopeless battle with my responsibilities as a young professional man with a dependent family.
With a grateful heart I should like to testify of a healing which I received through Christian Science. In the first part of February, 1927, I had to give up my work as a weaver.
When a young girl I was stricken with a severe and painful stomach disorder. I went from one physician to another, tried surgery and medicine, chiropractic treatment and osteopathy, all to no avail.
After all the goodness, kindness, and love which have been mine since I became a student of Christian Science, I feel it my duty and a great privilege to be able to send this testimony. I have received many healings, the outstanding ones being of chronic constipation, insomnia, and nervous prostration, the latter difficulty carrying with it a desire to commit suicide and the fear of going insane.
When I was a junior at the University of Minnesota it was my privilege to be placed as roommate of a girl who was a Christian Scientist. I had never heard of Christian Science up to that time.