Testimonies of Healing
It is over nineteen years since I first heard of Christian Science. It came to me in a time of great sorrow; but when the spiritual light of its teachings burst upon my consciousness, all was turned into joy, for I realized that God does not deprive man, His image and likeness, of any good—that good is his now.
About ten years ago, to mortal sense I was seemingly about to pass on from the effects of influenza and pneumonia. Being the mother of two small children, one a baby of less than a year and the other aged six years, I was overcome with fear and hopelessness.
I should like to tell first of a healing my little girl had five years ago. She was running across the road in pursuit of her brother when she was knocked down and run over by a car.
About eighteen years ago a friend induced me to attend a Wednesday evening testimony meeting at a Christian Science church in San Francisco. One testimony in particular I heard there that night seemed to me to be so impossible that instead of inquiring into it, either to prove or disprove its statements, I ridiculed it.
Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes in the Christian Science textbook, " Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.
With sincere gratitude to Christian Science I should like to relate my healing. About three years ago I suffered constantly from severe hemorrhages.
I first turned to Christian Science that I might learn why so much sorrow should come into our home. Finally, after I had read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, for many years, studied as best I could the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, and attended services for a few weeks, a discord which had caused me much suffering for years seemed to come to a climax.
Many blessings have come to me through studying Christian Science, so that with my heart full of sincere gratitude I should like to relate two wonderful healings. Shortly before the birth of my last child, I slipped on the ice, injuring my spine and displacing an organ.
I have no words adequate to express my deep gratitude for the untiring labors of our beloved Leader in giving to the world one of the greatest blessings of the ages, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " Through this, the textbook of Christian Science, the Principle and rules of divine healing are made available to all mankind, that all may follow in the footsteps of the Master, as Mrs.
In loving recognition of what Christian Science is doing for all mankind, I give this testimony. My telephone rang one morning, and when I answered it a strange voice informed me that my daughter had drunk a glass of water in which a bichloride of mercury tablet had been dissolved.