Testimonies of Healing
Although I have been a student of Christian Science for fifty years, I have never submitted a written testimony; so I am now correcting that omission. I am grateful that I had a mother who was very spiritually-minded and that I was brought up in a Christian atmosphere.
I am grateful to have been raised in Christian Science. I have experienced healings of injuries, relationship troubles, and difficulties concerned with home and location.
Recently I visited a lovely woman who reminded me of the wonderful healing that brought my grandparents into Christian Science. As a young girl in the early 1900s, this woman had been a school friend of my mother and my aunt.
One night after driving into our garage, my husband and I were confronted by two men armed with pistols. They forced us to lie down on the garage floor where we were bound and gagged.
In 1936 my paternal grandfather, who was living in Holland, was healed through Christian Science of tuberculosis. Soon after this healing, he, his wife, and their children began attending services at a branch Church of Christ, Scientist.
I am indeed grateful to glorify God for the vivid examples I've had of His all-power. While on holiday from college one time I found myself stranded in a distant city with car trouble.
"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings. " The foregoing statement—the opening sentence of the Preface to Science and Health by Mrs.
My understanding of Church, gained through the study of Christian Science, was a great support in a recent experience. Science and Health by Mrs.
Since my testimony was published in a 1971 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel , our family's blessings have continued to flow. During one winter our youngest child became ill.
"The entire education of children should be such as to form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual law, with which the child can meet and master the belief in so-called physical laws, a belief which breeds disease" ( Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p.