Testimony of Healing December 19, 1908 Issue

It is with the deepest gratitude that I record my healing...

Amy Brookshaw

It is with the deepest gratitude that I record my healing in Christian Science. For ten years previously I had suffered from Graves' disease, with its attendant complications of heart trouble, dropsical swellings, etc., and great general weakness. Though I was not invalided the whole of the ten years, I was very seldom well for a week at a time. The complaint was never absent from the system, and the attacks were frequent and severe. In the year previous to my healing I spent eight months in bed, and during the greater part of that time was so dangerously ill it seemed very unlikely that I should ever recover. The great kindness and attention of my doctors is one of the pleasant memories of that sad time, and I am grateful for all their efforts in my behalf. My convalescence at this time was very slow, and I had not regained my usual degree of health, poor as that was, when another attack set in. I was then utterly hopeless, as I felt I had no courage to go through all the suffering again, and had no hope of living more than a few months. I decided therefore that I would not try to go through the struggle again, but would die as quickly as I could, that the loving relatives who nursed me so tenderly should not be more worn out than was unavoidable. I could hardly bear the thought of leaving my husband and little daughter, and the others whom I so dearly loved, but since I believed I had to die, the sooner death came the better.

It was at this point that Christian Science came to heal and to save. I was instantaneously cured. At the first visit from the practitioner I was healed. That is more than a year ago, and ever since I have had strength sufficient for my daily need. My eyesight was restored so that I was able to discard glasses, the heart trouble vanished, and within a few weeks the goiter had disappeared. To say that I am grateful is little; my whole outlook upon life is different. It is not only my health that is restored, but my eyes have been opened to the truth, and of all my thankfulness my deepest joy is this, that the blessing I have received is free to all. There is no one in this world so sick or so sad but that Christian Science can heal him and make him to rejoice, and there is no wish in my heart that can compare with the desire that my life may prove how deep is my gratitude to God for my healing, and to Mrs. Eddy, who has been the means through which this great truth has been given to the world.

Mrs. Amy Brookshaw, Manchester, England.

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