Testimonies of Healing
The Holy Bible , and Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, have been constant companions and sources of inspiration, comfort, and healing throughout my life. After I became a member of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, my first committee appointment was that of usher outside the Sunday School room door.
One evening after work my husband and I decided not to fix dinner at home, but to go out to eat. We had no more than left, apparently, when a neighbor was driving by our house and noticed a bit of smoke coming out of our roof.
About twenty-five years, ago, not long after buying our first house, I became bedridden. Other family members were painting the house and doing all the chores, besides taking care of me.
Words are inadequate to express how grateful I am for Christian Science. I am a third-generation Christian Scientist, raised in a home where this teaching was our way of life.
In Science and Health ( p. xi ), Mary Baker Eddy speaks of "a divine influence ever present in human consciousness"—the Christ.
During the First World War, my father was discharged from the army as unfit for duty because of a perforated eardrum from a bomb blast. As a civilian, he spent many years trying every medical treatment and patent medicine that he could find, but to no avail.
When my husband and I found that we were expecting our first child, we were extremely surprised. We had been married only two years, and our plan was to wait several more before thinking about a family.
Some months back a growth had developed in my armpit. This grew to a very alarming and painful state just as I was preparing for a teaching contract at a college.
WHAT A TRUE BLESSING Christian Science has been to me. I have relied on it for healings of broken ankles, cuts, burns, financial difficulties, relationship problems, and numerous other difficulties.
SOMETIMES A HEALING stands out as a beacon that really assures us and confirms our trust in God as the only real power and healer. This happened to me shortly after leaving Sunday School.