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Healing - Reformation -
Transformation
Christian
Science Testimonies
S - Z
". . . The
prayer of faith shall save the sick . . ." St.
James
The following testimonies are from early issues
of The Christian Science Journal and
Sentinel.
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SAFETY
IN A
HURRICANE
"The
noise of the wind and the rain
and the crashing of parts of the
neighbors' houses was terrific,
but all through the storm I
closed my eyes to all material
sense testimony as well as I
could, knowing that there is no
other power or presence than
God."
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SAVED
BY DIVINE
LOVE
"I called to him that we were
going out to sea, but struggle as
we would we could not get
back."
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SEASICKNESS
HEALED
"I went up on deck, but it was so
rough it was impossible to do
much walking. Very few persons
were out, and I heard them
talking about the number that
were ill."
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SEVERE
INJURIES
HEALED
"I realize that it was only by a
'closer walk with God' that Mrs.
Eddy was able to bring to
darkened, suffering humanity this
wonderful spiritual and physical
healing the Christ-cure
with its benign influence which
is ever ready waiting for
'whosoever will.'"
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SEVERE
SICKNESS
HEALED
"The next day I had the
examination; and if I live to be
a thousand years old, I shall
never forget the scare this
doctor gave me."
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"SHE
NEVER
FELL"
"I was getting ready to go to the
morning service, and my little
daughter, five years old, was
playing about, when suddenly I
felt a silence. I instantly
noticed that the child was no
longer there and that the window
was open."
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SICKNESS
HEALED
"A few months ago my little girl
was taken with a very heavy cold
and distress through the body. I
called for help about noon, and
the condition continued to be the
same until about eleven o'clock
that night, when she was
apparently very much
worse."
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SICKNESS,
HEALING
OF
"One Thursday afternoon our
little son, aged three, came to
me complaining of his stomach and
told me to ask God to heal
him."
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SKEPTIC
CONVERTED
".
. . I was educated very strictly
and carefully in the religious
thought of the established
church, and up to about
twenty-three I had never felt the
slightest doubt as to its
doctrines being the whole and
only truth."
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SKIN
DISEASE
HEALED
"After two years of struggle the
valuable lesson was brought home
to me that not only must we think
the truth and speak the truth,
but we must also act from that
basis only."
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SKIN
DISEASE
HEALED
"A year ago last May, while
living in Miami, Florida, I
contracted what is known there as
Cuban itch, a terrible skin
affliction."
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SKIN
DISEASE
HEALED
"To those who have any doubts
that God does heal through
Christian Science, I would like
to say that the disease of which
I was cured was called by the
doctors 'lupus,' which they
pronounced practically incurable
and a very terrible
disease."
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SKULL
FRACTURE
HEALED
"The doctor, a prominent surgeon,
told me that with a fracture of
that nature my husband could live
but a few hours."
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FREED
FROM
SMOKING
"One day after dinner I sat down
to enjoy the reading of a
Christian Science lecture, jammed
my pipe full of tobacco, lighted
it, and was all fixed for a real
good time."
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SMOKING
HABIT
HEALED
"Being born in a southern state I
was reared among a family of
tobacco smokers, and it seemed as
natural to use tobacco as it was
to drink water."
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SMOKING
HABIT
HEALED
"Christian Science was brought to
my notice about four years ago by
my sister, who had been healed of
a disease which doctors stated
was incurable."
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"SOMETHING
WONDERFUL"
"Although from childhood I had
always thought of God as Spirit,
I lacked the true recognition of
infinite Spirit which began to
awaken me from the material dream
to the real spiritual being of
man."
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HEALING
OF
SORROW
"One day my husband came to me
with beaming face, saying that he
had heard of Christian Science
and that it healed."
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SPINAL
MENINGITIS
HEALED
"Everything humanly possible was
done to gain relief, but without
result. For several days the
report was passed around the
hospital that she could not live
throughout the day."
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SPIRITUAL
AWAKENING
"For ten years I suffered from
neuralgia in the head, and from
other ailments so serious that I
was obliged to submit to two
operations, and in October, 1911,
my doctor said he thought another
operation was
necessary."
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SPIRITUAL
ENLIGHTENMENT BRINGS
HEALING
"About sixteen years ago a friend
gave me a copy of 'Science and
Health with Key to the
Scriptures' by Mrs. Eddy, also
some Sentinels and
Journals to read, and
after reading for about six weeks
I found myself healed . .
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SPIRITUAL
LIBERATION
"When three of my acquaintances
were healed of so-called
incurable diseases by one who had
been Mrs. Eddy's pupil, I said,
'There is an understanding of God
that I do not know anything
about,' and how I wished I
had that
understanding."
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STOMACH
DISORDER
HEALED
"The practitioner talked with me
for about an hour, and at the end
of that time I knew that what I
had been hearing was the truth,
because it was logical, and it
was the first time I had ever
heard anything about God that I
thought was logical."
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STOMACH
TROUBLE
HEALED
"I was treated by the best
physicians, with no results; also
consulted a specialist, who
pronounced it the worst case of
perforation and ulceration of the
stomach under his observation,
and gave no hope."
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A
STORM
STILLED
"Several years ago an earnest
student of the Bible and the
Christian Science textbook
witnessed a scene where sudden
tempest seemed imminent, and
there appeared to be great
danger."
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SURE
OF GOD'S PRESENCE AND
POWER
". . . Truth requires absolute
truthfulness and honesty; Life
expresses itself in a spiritual
understanding which is
indestructible, and Love knows no
man but the image and likeness of
God."
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HEALING
OF DISCORDANT
TEETH
"I had searched for truth in
orthodox churches till I was
'weary and heavy laden.' I worked
in one church thirteen years, and
from that went to a mission that
believed in faith healing, but
was not satisfied, and still kept
on asking for light."
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PAINLESS
EXTRACTION OF
TEETH
"From childhood I have suffered
from decayed teeth and toothache,
until it finally became necessary
to have most of my teeth
extracted."
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TEMPTATIONS
OVERCOME
"I did not take up Science for
physical healing as much as for
the overcoming of
sin."
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THANKFUL
FOR
HEALING
"I am deeply grateful for
Christian Science, as discovered
and taught by Mrs. Eddy, and I
thank God that I am
well."
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"THAT
GLORIOUS DAY OF MY
HEALING"
"How many times during these
seven years, at some period of
depression and discouragement, I
have retired to my room in
meditation, recollecting that
glorious day of my healing; and
in thanking God for Christian
Science I would be healed
again."
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"THOUGHT
GOVERNS THE
BODY"
"I should like to share an
experience which was a further
proof to me that thought governs
the body, reflecting on it
harmony or disorder."
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THROAT
DISEASE
HEALED
"From
my earliest recollection I
suffered more or less from a
throat affection, and each attack
seemed worse than the preceding
one, until I lived in constant
fear."
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THROAT
PROBLEM
HEALED
"When I first heard that, in
Christian Science, healing was
being done as in Jesus' time, I
wanted to look into the
subject."
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"THROUGH
CLOUDS TO
SUNSHINE"
"My
experience, I presume, is much
like that of many other dear
students. I have struggled
through many dark places; but
have been cheered by many flashes
of Light; glimpses of the
spiritual reality."
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TONSILLITIS
HEALED
"From early childhood I usually
had two or three attacks of
tonsillitis each
winter."
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SAVED
FROM
TITANIC
"It
is difficult to tell of the
experience which follows, but the
student of Christian Science will
readily see in it that acceptance
of the truth made the overcoming
of fear possible, even as in the
case of disease, and that divine
Principle is to be relied upon at
all times."
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TONSILLITIS
HEALED
"I
regarded Christian Science with
tolerant amusement until, about
ten years ago, I witnessed a
wonderful healing."
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"TRANSFORMED
IN THOUGHT AND
DEED"
". . . I was suffering from
several so-called incurable
diseases, and three of the best
medical doctors refused to
prescribe, knowing that they
could do nothing for
me."
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"TRUE
ESTIMATE OF GOD'S
MESSENGER"
". . . While reading about the
importance of Mary Baker Eddy's
mission and purpose, I felt
within myself that the problem
had been 'broken.' The healing
started at that point and is now
complete."
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"THE
HEALING EFFECTS OF
TRUTH"
"About eight years ago Christian
Science was presented to me, and
I feel so grateful and happy
about it. Many times have I been
able to see the healing effects
of Truth."
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HEALING
OF
TUBERCULOSIS
"Three years last month I went to
a Christian Scientist with the
hope that I might get strength
enough to enable me to get to my
sister's home in the east to die,
as I had no expectation of being
cured or having my life prolonged
for any length of
time."
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HEALING
OF
TUBERCULOSIS
"For four years I had struggled
with sorrow and the dread disease
tuberculosis. I had lost all
faith in the God of my childhood
and could not see a ray of light
anywhere."
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HEALING
OF A
TUMOR
"About fifteen years ago, while I
was still depending upon
materia medica, I was ill,
and the doctors diagnosed my
trouble as fibroid interstitial
tumor."
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TUMOR
HEALED
"On my way home after the
treatment, I found that my
thought, which had seemed to be
so full of fear and hate, was
full of a love that I had never
experienced before."
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UNFOLDMENT
OF LOVE FOR
GOD
". . . I analyzed my concept of
God before I knew anything of
Christian Science. I had thought
of Him as being the originator of
condemnation, sacrifice, and
evil, and had decided that the
less I knew about Him the
better."
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UPLIFTED
BY THE POWER OF
TRUTH
"About
this time a dear Scientist sent
me an invitation to hear Mrs.
Knott lecture. I came away from
that lecture feeling much as I
think Paul felt on the road to
Damascus. So great was the power
of Truth that I was a changed
woman."
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"USE
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE"
"He
pronounced the trouble nervous
prostration and heart disease and
said that I might live three
days; that if I did live longer I
would become helpless. As I left
his office he remarked, 'Use
Christian Science.'"
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VISION
PROBLEM
HEALED
". . . When I first heard of
Christian Science I had been in a
very bad condition for a year, in
fact life seemed a burden, and I
was patiently waiting to die and
get through with it all, as I
then supposed."
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FROM
A WARDEN'S
LETTER
"This prisoner was received
---- to serve a life sentence for
murder in the first degree. We
were compelled to maintain him in
solitary confinement most of his
time; and he at one time made an
attempt to assault a guard with
the intention of escaping."
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"WELL-BEING
AND
FREEDOM"
"During the time of drought and
depression which this part of the
country went through two years
ago, my husband's business seemed
in a very bad way indeed, the
bank having stopped giving any
more credit, and the fear was
expressed that the business would
have to close down and the work
and savings of years be
lost."
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"A
WONDERFUL
DEMONSTRATION"
"My husband and I are in the
theatrical profession, and during
the performance one evening he
fell to the floor from a height
of sixteen or eighteen feet,
landing on his face and hands,
unconscious."
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WONDERFULLY
ILLUMINED
"While I was reading it the third
time my apprehension was
wonderfully illumined; like Paul
on his way to Damascus, the
scales had fallen from my eyes
and I was healed."
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THE
WONDERFUL POWER OF DIVINE
LOVE
"At the age of forty-five I was
very profane, addicted to
smoking, an occasional drinker,
fond of gambling, and I drifted
into any and all of the usual
pleasures of a man who takes life
easy. Now, all these things are
of the past . . ."
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WRIST
INJURY
HEALED
"I was cleaning the kitchen table
and rubbing it very vigorously,
when suddenly I struck my arm on
something sharp . . ."
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