Testimonies of Healing

A number of years ago some friends invited me to attend a Wednesday evening testimony meeting. I attended several meetings after that, and was much impressed with what I heard; but I did not accept Christian Science at that time.

Christian Science was first lovingly presented to me by a friend sixteen years ago, when our son, then about eight months old, had been under the care of a physician for some time, suffering from malaria. The doctor had used every means that he knew of to prevent the return of the chills and fever, but without success.

I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings that have come to me through the study of Christian Science. I decided to try it for the overcoming of constipation of eight years' standing.

For some time previous to my knowing anything about Christian Science I had felt disappointed with the results of my religion. I had been brought up in the Church of England, but felt in the latter years that I was not getting what the Bible promised.

Gratitude to God and to Christian Science prompts me to give my testimony. For four years I suffered from a nervous stomach complaint and great physical weakness.

It is my desire publicly to express a measure of the gratitude that I daily feel for what Christian Science has done for me. Over six years ago, after the birth of our fourth child, I was in despair over my lack of strength and health.

I first heard of Christian Science in 1899. A copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was handed to me.

When Christian Science was first brought to my notice I could not accept it because I could not understand it, the reason for this being, as I now see, that I seemed to be so steeped in materiality. Then came the healing through Christian Science treatment of an open wound, which was the result of an operation I had had.

While I did not come into Christian Science for physical healing, many discordant conditions have been overcome, among them a fibroid tumor that the doctor had said could be cured only by an operation and a dislocated knee joint of long standing. Eyeglasses which oculists had told me I would always have to wear have been discarded.

About eleven years ago my mother tried Christian Science as a last resort and was healed. She had been a sufferer for years with two kinds of heart disease, and had been given up by her doctors.