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Testimonies of Healing

At times I find myself lamenting the fact that my...

From the August 1910 issue of The Christian Science Journal


At times I find myself lamenting the fact that my growth in the understanding of Christian Science does not appear to be as rapid as desired, but when this sense of discouragement arises I have only to review my experience in Christian Science by a comparison with the old order of things before I had tested its efficacy, to convince me that the question, "What has Christian Science really done for you?" is too broad to be fully and briefly answered.

I sought healing through it over three years ago, and only because I had exhausted all material remedies, having spent several thousand dollars in experimenting for a period of years with first one system and then another, for relief from a complication of ailments. A chronic case of stomach and bowel trouble of long standing had affected in some degree the action of every organ in my body. Some eighteen or twenty medical practitioners, experts and specialists of note located in different parts of the country, had exhausted their most sincere efforts to help me without avail. I was operated upon, changes of climate and occupation were recommended; electricity, osteopathy, dieting, and the knife were resorted to, and all schools of medicine were given an opportunity to demonstrate the superiority of their method. Throat specialists had assured me that while the throat affection was not of a nature to terminate fatally, I could expect nothing but that I would always have trouble and suffer from the condition for which they were then treating me.

In spite of the greatest caution in the selection and preparation of food, where the latter was possible, toward the last I could eat only the simplest, and then with a remedy taken before and after meals. I also resorted to systematic exercise both in and out of doors, it having been claimed that my sedentary habits were responsible for my ill health, and I was seriously considering a change in occupation. I could not, however, believe that this could be the case, as the troubles had begun while I was a mere youth and spending much of my time out of doors. After the first treatment by a Christian Science practitioner the stomach trouble left me, and there has been no recurrence since. I can now eat anything that any other human being would eat, and much that many of them cannot. The bowel trouble yielded after several treatments, and all other organs have been restored to a normal condition. Since taking my first treatment in Christian Science I have not found it necessary or desirable to resort to drugs or other material remedies for healing, while previous to that time I had not for years allowed a day to pass without resorting to the use of some drug or material agency, and never thought of traveling without a liberal supply of medicine.

As a result of this experience, I have naturally taken up the study and investigation of Christian Science, feeling that the Principle which healed my physical ills must also be applicable to other problems encountered in human life, and I have in a measure found this to be true. We know that the truth is applicable to every condition and circumstance and will meet every human need; that to the extent we correctly apply the truth and live it, in that degree do we measure results, and many are the faults that I hope to overcome and destroy as I gain more of this understanding. Long before I knew or had heard of Christian Science, I believed that if the instances of healing recorded in the Bible were true, it could now and would again some day be resorted to. Little did I know at that time that even then it had been restored to us through the Discoverer of Christian Science. There was within me the feeling and hope that healing would come to me in some way at some time, though I no longer looked for it through the use of drugs.

During the three years that I have known of Christian Science through my own experience, we have resorted to its treatment in our family of four. We have been able to help ourselves in many ways, and while like other people we are not immune from attacks, they certainly do not occur as frequently as before and the results are much quicker and more satisfactory. The difference is this, where before we called a physician, we now call a Christian Science practitioner, when unable to meet conditions ourselves, and the results have been very gratifying. The children have responded beautifully, and we feel that our youngest boy, now two years of age, owes his life to Christian Science. Just now I am most concerned in gaining a spiritual understanding, and for my part I cannot see how any one who will honestly investigate the teachings of this religion and try to get at the view of the author, —as must any individual before he can claim to have investigated with an open mind,—can for a moment say that it is neither scientific nor Christian. In mathematics it is necessary to understand the basic law before we can successfully apply it to the solution of a problem: and this is likewise true in Christian Science. It certainly takes the most consistent view of life, its purpose and how to live it, as well as of man's relation to God; and the fact that it is demonstrable is of paramount importance. I am grateful for what it has done for me and is doing for mankind today.—

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