Testimonies of Healing

When I became interested in Christian Science, I had no particular faith in its power to heal and felt no need of physical healing; but I had always been very religious, and it appealed to me as practical instruction about God. I wondered why the words "Key to the Scriptures" appeared in the title of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

My mother, who had been left with three young children at the passing on of my father, was instantaneously healed through Christian Science of the need for wearing glasses, although the doctors had forecast dire results if she did not continue to wear them. This healing came in direct answer to her prayer to be shown if Christian Science was the right religion for her to turn to.

I learned about Christian Science a few months before the beginning of the First World War in 1914. A woman from America came to visit relatives in Latvia, and when she heard of my suffering from severe headaches, she came to visit me and advised me to turn to Christian Science for help.

I had known about Christian Science since I was a child, but I had only ridiculed it and had thought scathing things about anyone who practiced it. However, I did feel that there must be an answer to the seeming paradoxes of the life around me and in the universe.

With a sincere desire to encourage others who may believe there is little hope, I can testify that when alcohol had brought me to the point of despair, I turned to a Christian Science practitioner for treatment and was instantly healed of all desire for alcohol. I could fill a book with my gratitude for this healing alone; but it was followed in good time, with the help of a practitioner, by the healings of nervousness, sleeplessness, high blood pressure, severe chest pains, failing eyesight, a large tumor on one eyelid, growths, both internal and external, and other conditions.

For several hours preceding a hurricane that swept through Florida two years ago, I earnestly prayed for the safety of our loved ones and their homes, and I included everyone in my prayers. I tried to keep my thought aligned with the spiritual meaning of Scriptural words such as these ( Isa.

It is with a heart filled with gratitude to God for our Leader that I am prompted to relate a few of the many blessings I have received since taking up the study of Christian Science over fifty years ago. Science was presented to me by my mother, who had witnessed the healing of a loved one whose illness the doctors had failed to cure.

I first started reading Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy about twelve years ago.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE came into my life when I was a teen-ager, and I shall ever be grateful to the woman who told me about the Christian Science Sunday School. I had been earnestly praying to God to show me how to be good, and after one visit to the Sunday School I felt that God had answered my prayer.

When I was quite young my family became interested in Christian Science as the result of a healing of my mother. At a gathering of mutual friends, she had met a Christian Science practitioner, who told her a little about this, to Mother, new religion.