Testimonies of Healing

I first heard of Christian Science from friends who were regular attendants at a branch church. These friends frequently asked me to attend the service with them.

Over thirty years ago I was healed through Christian Science of what the doctors pronounced quick consumption. I had been sent to a climate considered safer for one with such a trouble; and it was there I learned that God is everywhere, and that "we live, and move, and have our being" in God, in Spirit, not in matter.

After my marriage and the birth of our first child, what little health I had held to gave way. I was an invalid the greater part of ten years; and during the last five I was confined to my bed most of the time, having to take heart stimulants every day and sometimes as often as every fifteen minutes.

The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was lent to me by a friend who is not a Christian Scientist, but who thought it might do me good if I could accept its teachings. I read it through eagerly with the hope that I might be freed from the many troubles that seemed too much for me, both mental and physical.

Some years ago I was an invalid, confined to my bed a greater portion of the time by what doctors diagnosed as gallstones. I had suffered from this for four years.

Christian Science found me nearly ten years ago at a time of great need. I was suffering physically from a bad breakdown, the result of work in a hospital during the war.

About five years ago I came into Christian Science through physical healing. Before that I was a member of a Jewish temple.

I have many reasons to be grateful for Christian Science. I took up the study over seven years ago; and from that day I have relied wholly on Christian Science, and it has met my every need.

When I was a very small child, my mother was healed of a so-called incurable disease which had caused her a great deal of suffering. Just previous to her healing, I had had typhoid fever, which left me in a very delicate condition.

I was reared in a Christian home and my joining the church at an early age was simply the thing to be expected. After joining, childlike, for some time I looked for some special change in thought and feeling; but as it did not come I gradually settled down and tried to fill my place in the church as I believed I should.