Testimonies of Healing
Christian Science came into my life while I was working for a major university and also studying for my doctorate in religious education. To recount the blessings that have come to me since that time would take many pages.
After I began the study of Christian Science, my life was radically transformed. In two years I joined a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and a little later, The Mother Church.
Early in my study of Christian Science I decided to commit a statement of substance to memory so that I would always have it with me in time of need. I turned to the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.
Throughout my career as an Army officer, I had lower back strain. I suffered several days each month, on the average, and I would often spend a weekend in bed to rest my back.
What would I do without Christian Science? Each time I have asked myself that question, I have recalled with much gratitude many of the healings and blessings I have had as a result of studying this Science. And I count as one of my greatest blessings, having been able to attend a Christian Science Sunday School until the age of twenty.
In the early 1900's my mother lived in a small midwestern town, where she was the only student of Christian Science. I will always be grateful for her gentle instructions and her staunch reliance on this Science.
My wife passed on in 1982. During our more than forty years of happy, harmonious marriage the love, compassion, and unselfishness my wife expressed had been an inspiration to me.
My previous testimony (published in the October 12, 1963, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel ) related physical healings. This time I would like to share experiences which proved to me that radical reliance on divine Mind's guidance and control always brings exactly what's needed.
Since the demonstration of Christian Science isn't so much a matter of certain "major" healings occurring in a lifetime, as of day-by-day spiritualized living, it's again time to share some of the wonderful fruitage our family has had, ".
While attending college I began dating a Christian Scientist. Warned by friends and relatives against getting involved with a Christian Scientist, I asked a professor, who was also an ordained minister, about Christian Science.