Testimonies of Healing

We read in the Bible ( I Pet. 2:9 ), "Ye are a chosen generation.

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" ( Matt. 11:28 ).

From where I viewed it as I drove by-several times a week on my way to our | Christian Science Reading Room, I could see that it was a lovely house. Yet the grounds were unkempt, and I wondered why.

Early in her marriage, my mother had an instantaneous healing of an eye ulcer that she was told would result in blindness. She was healed through Christian Science treatment.

The healings we read about in the Bible, especially those of Christ Jesus, who radically healed all kinds of ailments, have always inspired me. They are an absolute testament that material cause and effect are not law.

I was brought up in Christian Science and attended a Christian Science Sunday School. In my teen years, however, I fell away from its teachings and practice.

Over three years ago my husband and I moved to a small mountain town. We had been living overseas in a metropolitan area, and the time had come to return to the United States.

How grateful I am for the guidance Christian Science has provided me over the years! Through it I've learned to lean consistently on my Father-Mother God through times of trial and testing. I grew up in a very loving but medically oriented environment.

I have had the advantage of studying Christian Science since childhood, and I have relied on it entirely for healing and for meeting my needs. I recall with deep feeling the answering of one need a few years ago.

Christian Science has brought me inspiration, strength, and comfort for more than forty years. It was presented to me by a young man who had been a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School and who correctly surmised it would answer my questions concerning God and Christ Jesus—questions I had not had answered satisfactorily in the Protestant church of which I was then a member.