Testimonies of Healing

I wish to give this testimony in gratitude for having received so much through the study of Christian Science. From my childhood I had been a sufferer, enjoying very little health.

In the year 1919 I was led to take up the study of Christian Science, that I might receive help out of a condition concerning other persons besides myself. While studying the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, together with the Bible, and waiting on God to bring me relief, I had three physical healings, as my early proofs of the truth and power of Christian Science.

My attention was first brought to Christian Science by a friend fifteen years ago, at a time when I was an informed believer in the modes of psychiatry, medicine, and surgery, being then, and for a few years following, engaged as a private secretary during two successive hospital connections. After a few months of desultory reading in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, my former concept of prayer was changed; while a lifelong condition of constipation, with related severe suffering, was completely healed.

In grateful acknowledgment of the many benefits received I gladly give my testimony. I am increasingly grateful to the one who mentioned Christian Science to me.

About twenty-six years ago I began the study of Christian Science. It was brought to my attention through the healing of a relative, who seemed to get a more demonstrable understanding of God than I had been taught in the orthodox church, of which I was at that time a member.

An account of my first healing in Christian Science appeared in The Christian Science Journal for January, 1904, and was written by my father in grateful testimony. I was the infant who swallowed the open safety pin, with no ill effects save occasional coughing.

About fifteen years ago I was told by several physicians that a serious condition, which had caused severe hemorrhages, would not yield to local treatments and an operation would be imperative. Shortly after this I was ordered into southern Ohio on business covering a period of sixteen weeks.

My heart is filled with gratitude in writing this testimony. For more than fifteen years I had suffered from ill health and many bodily ailments.

I have received many blessings during the years of my study of Christian Science and wish to express my gratitude for this Science as taught by Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder. I am very grateful for a recent physical healing.

We read in Isaiah, "A little child shall lead them. " This proved to be the case in our family.