Testimonies of Healing

When I became interested in Christian Science I was most miserable, filled with fear, a nervous wreck, and in bondage to chronic bronchitis resulting from pneumonia at childbirth, and pronounced incurable. Every winter for sixteen years, until May, when the weather became warm and settled, was a nightmare.

While spending a vacation in the mountains of southern California, I started out alone one morning on a foot journey to a resort a considerable distance away. The weather had been very severe shortly before and had worn away almost entirely the narrow ledge over which the trail led at one point.

Sixteen years ago I was suffering from heart disease and lung trouble. It seemed to all concerned then that I should go to Colorado, where there was a possibility of my living a year at the most.

From my own experience I know that the difficulties which present themselves to us can be overcome by the right application of the law of God as given to us in the Bible and our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. For eleven years I was a partial invalid, in bed more than half the time, and I underwent eight operations within five years.

" And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away," we read in the twenty-first chapter of Revelation. This in a measure literally happened to me after taking up the study of Christian Science, for a confused sense of God and His creation began to pass away.

Almost the first time I turned to Christian Science for help I was instantaneously healed of neuritis. A nerve specialist in California had said that only rest and quiet for a long time would effect a cure.

I first came in contact with Christian Science about twenty-six years ago through some new acquaintances, who took me to the midweek testimony meeting in a Christian Science church. A statement made by one of the speakers stayed with me.

I am sending this testimony as a slight expression of my boundless gratitude for all that Christian Science means to me and to my family. We did not seek Christian Science for healing, but because we became convinced, even against our will, of its truth.

When one has had a physical healing, the potency of Christian Science is realized. When one feels the healing truth in his body, hears the "Peace, be still," quieting turbulent thoughts, and sees the manifestations of disease, accident, or sin disappear, then is one's heart lifted in gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy for unfolding this great truth to mankind.

About nine years ago Christian Science came to me in an hour of great need. I was troubled severely with boils, which usually came one or two at a time and covered a period of perhaps one year, during which I was never free from them.