Testimonies of Healing

Deep gratitude for help received from the testimonies given in our periodicals urges me to tell something of what Christian Science has done for me. It would be impossible to tell all that it has done and is doing.

During the twelve years I have been a student of Christian Science various healings have been experienced, two of which I desire to relate, as they may help someone else. For some few years after I became interested in Christian Science, a student of Mrs.

Christian Science has led me from the shadow of death into the sunshine of Soul, and I owe everything to its healing and saving power. About seventeen years ago, after an elder sister had been healed through Christian Science of an illness for which several doctors had declared an operation imperative, I began to investigate it for myself.

It is with a feeling of deep gratitude that I tell about a healing I had some time ago. I went from San Francisco to Holland to visit my children.

Through the receptivity of thought to good I have had many healings in Christian Science, of rheumatism, of ulcers of the stomach, and of a great lack of loving-kindness. None of these healings were instantaneous; but with the help of faithful practitioners, to whom I owe much gratitude, and by an honest and persistent study of the Bible and Mrs.

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.