Testimonies of Healing

My attention was first attracted to Christian Science in 1910 by Christian Science literature sent to our home. From the beginning I enjoyed reading the testimonies in the Sentinel.

The first time I remember thinking much about Christian Science was after a lady spoke to me on an elevated train regarding the possibility of Christian Science healing my small son, who was unable to talk as he had what the doctors called paralysis of the throat. Some months after this, on my way to the city to a hospital for a second operation, I was led to go to the home of a friend who is a Christian Science practitioner.

When I was very small I heard the preachers say much about water baptism. My thought was kept busy searching for the truth, as I had a great desire to be a Christian as soon as I was old enough; but how was I to know when I was a Christian? This was in my thought a great deal of the time.

It was about fifteen years ago that I first became interested in Christian Science, out in India, through staying with a friend who was a Christian Scientist. I could not help seeing that she had something in her life which I had not, and I asked her if I might read some of her books and literature.

I should like to express my deep gratitude for all the good that has come to us through the application of Christian Science. I have been healed in one treatment of a very severe headache, which had lasted four days, and instantaneously of a fainting spell.

Christian Science found me at a time which I can truthfully say was to me as "man's extremity," and which proved to be "God's opportunity. " I was suffering from an incipient cancer, and had tried all sorts of medicine, osteopathy, and finally surgery, after which I was assured my health would be better than ever; yet I found myself worse than before, due to weakness and infection which caused me to visit the doctor for treatment for almost a year.

When Christian Science was introduced into our home, twenty-five years ago, I did not foresee the tremendous influence for good which it was to bring to me and to several members of my family. Since our whole-hearted acceptance of Christian Science it has indeed been a "pearl of great price.

I am very grateful for the better understanding of God which the study of Christian Science is bringing to me daily. For many years I did not attend any church, as the various religions I had studied seemed very unsatisfactory.

I was a prisoner in the flesh, bound on all sides by false doctrines and worshiping false gods. That the power of materia medica was greater than God's power I did not question, thus ignorantly breaking the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Christian Science was first brought to my attention in 1910. At that time the seed of Truth was sown in my consciousness, but it did not bear much fruit until 1917, when I turned whole-heartedly to Christian Science after passing through very deep waters.