Testimonies of Healing
Christian Science —this most precious gift— came into my life many years ago. It was introduced to my family by a visiting vacuum cleaner salesman.
During college I started suffering from painful headaches. I took strong painkillers, but often even these wouldn't work.
" For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost" (Titus).
A few years ago I was exposed to large amounts of chlordane, a poison. A short time later, very strange and frightening symptoms appeared on my body; soon I was completely incapacitated.
Having attended a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, off and on for many years, I intended to join the Church—someday. But the question in my mind was always whether there would be enough time to fulfill all of the obligations of church membership.
In 1965 I had hepatitis and spent three months in a hospital. I was released with the instruction to keep to a strict diet and not to tax myself too much.
Nine years ago I had trouble with my bladder. I went to three doctors, but the medicines didn't help and the pains were terrible.
I was eight years old when my mother was told about the Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Christian Science Sunday School. She decided that my sister and I should attend Sunday School.
With a heart full of gratitude I am sharing my testimony with you. Although I knew almost nothing of Christian Science, it saved me at a very critical moment during a period of illness.
As a young teenager, I found that study of the weekly Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly and attendance at a Christian Science Sunday School were essential to me in establishing a strong spiritual foundation. The following healing brought to light the power and truth of the opening sentence of the chapter "Prayer" in Science and Health by Mrs.