Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science came into my life twelve years ago, after I had been confined to my bed for five months with what physicians called "miliary tuberculosis. " I did not then know that it is frequently considered fatal, but I did know my condition was growing more serious.

For about twenty-four years Christian Science has been a constant help to me. It has met my every need, so that in all that time I have never turned to any material aid to solve my problems.

Because I have been wonderfully blessed through the teaching of Christian Science, I wish to show my gratitude by sending a testimony to the Field. I did not come into Christian Science through physical healing, but as the result of my father's healing of paralysis after he had been given up by doctors as incurable.

When I turned to Christian Science for healing, I had been suffering for five years from what the physicians termed nervous prostration. Insomnia, extreme weakness, and stomach trouble had quite spoiled my girlhood and made me a semi-invalid.

I am indeed grateful for Christian Science, for the loving help of a faithful practitioner, for the privilege of working in the Sunday school, and for the church services and the authorized Christian Science literature. To one who was brought up to fear that at any moment one was liable to an attack of disease, the understanding, at least in part, of Christian Science certainly means much.

Christian Science came to my rescue a few months after "the last enemy" had entered my home and, as it seemed to me then, had left me desolate and alone with a little ten-months-old babe to rear and provide for. I had fallen into such a state of grief that I often found it difficult to be courteous, and I would say to myself that I did not care anything about a God who would treat me like this.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I give this testimony of a healing through Christian Science. I had suffered about seventeen years from concussion and a double fracture at the base of the spine caused by a fall, and was partly paralyzed.

A few years ago I was very sick; in fact, so much so that one day I thought I was dying. I was alone at the time.

It is over thirty years since my first healing in Christian Science. I had suffered for several weeks from eye trouble which oculists did not cure or glasses correct.

As so many others have done, I too should like to tell of what Christian Science has done for me. I did not begin to study "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy until October, 1919, although I had attended Christian Science services during the summer of that year.