Testimonies of Healing

Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. " Christ, Truth, has made my children and me free from many, many ills; and I am most grateful.

Some years ago I thought it humorous to tease one who was a student of Christian Science. Finally an attack of lumbago failed to respond to medical treatment; so with humility I asked for help in Christian Science from this same student, who gave me a copy of "The People's Idea of God" by" Mary Baker Eddy.

I was led to Christian Science while passing through deep waters— sorrow, anxiety, and sickness, and the loss of everything that then seemed to make life worth while. There was also a great fear of the future.

An old saying is, "Open confession is good for the soul. " I certainly ask forgiveness of Christian Science, for my feeling was once bitter against it, owing to religious training and later to my work as a nurse.

About twenty-six years ago I was living in New York City, and when a friend invited me to attend a Christian Science Wednesday evening testimony meeting I did so from curiosity, expecting to be amused more than anything else. Without realizing it, I found myself regularly attending services both on Wednesday and on Sunday.

Christian Science has been my physician and Comforter through many trying experiences. Some healings, among them that of ptomaine poisoning, strained muscles, rheumatism, injuries from falls, have been instantaneous, others have taken longer; but it is with a grateful heart I can say I have spent only one whole day in bed during the eighteen years that I have been studying this Science of being.

Christian Science has met my every need, in sickness, in sorrow, and in lack. During the past sixteen years I have relied wholly on God to lead me out of the darkness of error into the light of Truth and Love.

Words are inadequate to express my appreciation of Christian Science. When I first heard of it I was suffering from the last stages of goiter.

I am indeed grateful for the abundance of good that has always come to me, and for the love of our Father that has been expressed through guidance, protection, and supply. Christian Science was not studied for physical healing, for good health is one of the many blessings bestowed upon me.

After about ten years' study of the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I feel it a great privilege to testify in writing to the healing efficacy of Christian Science. I was healed of nervousness of many years' standing, caused, so physicians claimed, by telephone operating; also of bowel trouble, hemorrhoids, influenza, indigestion, and a broken wrist.