Testimonies of Healing

I am very grateful for protection through Christian Science on a business trip. Prior to starting, I talked to a Christian Science practitioner about business trips and asked for his prayerful support of my efforts to bring a better sense of harmony into the activities.

Several years ago a testimony telling of my gratitude for Christian Science was printed in the Christian Science Sentinel. Since that time the continuing unfoldment of good and the many proofs of God's protection and love which I have experienced inspire me to express again that thankfulness which is in my heart.

I should like to express my gratitude for a healing of defective eyesight. I had been wearing glasses for two years and found that my eyesight was deteriorating.

Through the patient and loving help of a Christian Science practitioner I was healed of alcoholism nine years ago. In twenty-five years of drinking, I was never able to control myself even after taking only one drink.

I was a sick, unhappy, very much depressed person when Christian Science was presented to me by a new neighbor, and I was greatly impressed by the joy expressed by Scientists when I attended my first lecture on Science. The peace and calmness possessed by the one who introduced the lecturer and who sat so still for over an hour on the platform were an inspiration to me, and I remember thinking that perhaps Science could help me, because I was very nervous and restless.

Four years ago I had an illness which increased the size of my body to such abnormal proportions that there was a question in my mind as to whether or not I would recover. Breathing was very difficult, and I was unable to move around.

My four children and I had been attending a certain church for some years, when I was suddenly awakened to the fact that I did not have an understandable knowledge of God. This was brought about by the tragic loss of my dearest friend and her family.

My first healing in Christian Science took place in 1925. A friend, herself a student of Science, had recommended that I take up its study to help a member of my family; but its healing power came to my own attention when I was healed of a severe attack of lumbago.

I was reared in a church that was generous in its attitude toward all religions, yet I allowed myself to believe discrediting statements relative to Christian Science. Then, desiring to further my education in art, I left home to live in a large city.

Christian Science has been the greatest blessing that has come into my life. I was reared in Science and attended Sunday School until the age of twenty.