Testimonies of Healing

I feel urged to express my gratitude to God for all the blessings my family and I have been privileged to enjoy in the ten years I have been studying Christian Science. Although I had a very religious training, I could not find anything that really satisfied me.

Over twenty years ago, I made investigations to find out what the Christian Science textbook and the Bible used by Christian Scientists were. I found their Bible to be the one I had been using, namely, the King James Version, and that it was held in highest esteem by the Founder and Leader of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy, the author of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

I have had many healings through Christian Science, and it has brought into my life many blessings. The first healing was that of foot trouble.

I wish to express my gratitude to God for revealing to this age the scientific meaning of His Word; to Christ Jesus for demonstrating the spirit and power of God in overcoming sin, sickness, and death, and for saying that all who believed on him could do the same works and greater; and to Mary Baker Eddy for walking so close to God that she could receive this truth and give it to a world hungering for the right understanding of God and of man's relationship to Him. My first healing was of constipation from which I had suffered four years, during which time there had been no action without material aid; and there was no action for six days previous to my first treatment in Christian Science.

With a heart filled with gratitude and a sincere desire to help others I wish to give the testimony of my first healing through Christian Science. I had never known what it was to be free from sickness.

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.