Testimonies of Healing
"Of the ten lepers whom Jesus healed, but one returned to give God thanks,— that is, to acknowledge the divine Principle which had healed him" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 94 ).
My interest in Science began as a result of my reading the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, at a time when I was working as a registered nurse in a children's hospital.
After more than three decades of studying and striving to live Christian Science, I am in grateful awe of the glimpses of God that have come into my experience. The clarity of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.
Within a three-month period, a foster son, my husband, and my sister all passed on. Two days after my husband passed on, our son and only child was married in a ceremony that had been planned for some time.
When I was six years old, my mother was told about Christian Science by a woman she met while we were staying in a seaside guesthouse. Very soon thereafter I was enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School, and my mother threw her considerable collection of medicines in the dustbin.
Early in 1977 my wife was having severe problems with her blood pressure and was very frequently ill. A doctor, who was a friend of ours, examined her and concluded that she would die before long.
"Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light" ( I Pet. 2:9 ).
My husband and I are among the fifth generation of Christian Scientists in our family. This means that for nearly a hundred years members of our family have relied on God for healing.
Our family has both experienced and witnessed the healing efficacy of Christian Science for over fifty years, and I, indeed, have so very much to be grateful for. Some of the healings and demonstrations include those of so-called children's diseases, bronchitis, colds, influenza, a heart condition (which was related in an earlier issue of the Christian Science Sentinel ), symptoms of bursitis, and what appeared to be pneumonia.
My introduction to the healing power of Christian Science came about when my grandfather was healed in a matter of hours of what had been diagnosed as a blood clot on the brain. As wonderful as this healing was, however, not one of us in the family took up the study of this healing Science except Grandfather himself.