Testimonies of Healing

It has been my desire for a long time to express my gratitude for Christian Science by sending a testimony to one of our periodicals. To tell of all the healings I have had, both spiritual and physical, would require too much space, so I will mention just a few.

I have had many healings in Christian Science, physical, financial, and mental, and have been led, step by step, through a problem which threatened to wreck my life, and for which there was no earthly solution; but thanks to Christian Science and to a most loving practitioner, who helped me to see the unreality of it, the experience turned out to be one of the greatest blessings that have ever come to me. The healing that stands out particularly at this time is one that took place about three years ago.

About three years ago, through Christian Science, I learned the truth about God and man as His perfect idea. Since then I have had many healings, some of physical ailments, such as nervousness, colds, constipation, hay fever; and also healings of unlovely traits of disposition, such as resentment, self-love, hatred, and self-will.

It is with gratitude and joy that I send in my testimony for the Journal. The Christian Science literature holds an important place in our home.

When Elisha healed Naaman of his leprosy, it is recorded in the Bible that "his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child. " This passage of Scripture stands out to me through a proof of God's power to heal today as in the earlier centuries.

When Christian Science was presented to me about twenty-four years ago, it found me a mental and physical wreck as a result of epileptic fits in the worst form, which I had as often as three times in one day. After trying some of the best specialists of the United States and many kinds of treatment, but getting worse all the time, I asked one of the best doctors in this locality if he would tell me the truth if I asked him a serious question, and he said, "Yes.

Three years ago, when to mortal sense all seemed dark, Christian Science was brought to my notice by a friend living in a distant state. I had written her a very miserable letter, telling her of the illness of my mother, who had heart trouble, pronounced incurable.

I wish to tell of a very quick and beautiful healing which I received nearly three years ago, and which was brought about through the loving help of a Christian Science practitioner. I was brought home from the hospital in a very weak condition.

For some time I have felt a great desire to give testimony to the healing power of Christian Science. To my knowledge I am the only Scientist in this Territory.

About eighteen and a half years ago, when I was living in the outskirts of a small town far away from my home town and friends, Christian Science was brought to me by my sister, who had been healed almost instantaneously of an ailment which two doctors had said only an operation could heal, and that such operations were fatal nine times out of ten. She knew very little of Christian Science, but left me some literature.