Testimonies of Healing

After I had led a dissipated life, my wandering desire was arrested while attending a Christian Science Wednesday evening testimony meeting. The friends who invited me to attend this meeting and I were under the influence of liquor, and our intention was to deride rather than to worship.

Some years ago I was in a state of great discouragement over my health and had almost settled down to accept suffering as inevitable, having tried an endless succession of material remedies and various treatments without getting any relief. As a last resort, I was advised by the doctor to try six weeks of complete rest without putting my feet to the ground; and I was told that if the trouble still continued the only other hope was a surgical operation, which might or might not benefit me.

For more than twenty years I was sick with chronic stomach trouble. Many of the best doctors in the country attended me, and they all told me that they had never seen a case like mine healed.

I love to express my appreciation for Christian Science. I am indeed grateful to all who have helped me to know this beautiful truth about God.

I had known of Christian Science a number of years before I began an earnest study to learn its applicability to my problems. Having been materially successful in my work and usually in good health, I felt no need of what I presumed Christian Science to be.

I received my first healing in Christian Science when I was just a young girl. It was of a disease of the skin and was quite disfiguring, as well as the source of much humiliation.

Jesus' words to his disciples were, "Freely ye have received, freely give;" and it is with love and gratitude for the many channels provided in the Christian Science movement which enable me to serve in the establishment of "on earth peace, good will toward men," that I submit this testimony. When a young girl of thirteen I became seriously ill with typhoid fever; at the same time an elder sister contracted the same disease, though in a milder form.

Although I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing, it is with deep gratitude that I testify to its efficacy to heal nervous trouble, indigestion, severe headaches, influenza, burns, and sprained ankles and wrists. This unfailing truth has been my only physician for over nineteen years, and the above mentioned difficulties have been healed permanently.

I give this testimony of the healing and transforming power of Christian Science with a deep and sincere sense of gratitude for the revelation of this great truth, and with the hope that it may carry a message of comfort and help to others such as other testimonies have so often brought to me. At ten years of age I was thought to be a delicate, frail boy whose heart was in such a weak state that it was doubtful whether I would survive another winter.

When Christian Science was first presented to me, I was in the depths of despair. For three years I had suffered from nervous prostration, insomnia, and a terrible fear of insanity that hung over me like a dark cloud night and day.