Testimonies of Healing

Over the forty years during which I have been studying Christian Science I have had definite proof that the law of God is always in operation. In the degree that I have confidently placed myself and my affairs under His law, my problems have been solved harmoniously.

When I was a child, I attended a Christian Science Sunday School, and I am grateful that the teaching was so firm that a later investigation of other systems and intellectual curiosity about many things never quite replaced the knowledge that the only true system of healing is Science and that some day I must return to it, and I did. A short time after there had been a series of readjustments in my experience and I had begun to give piano lessons, I realized one day, during an early morning lesson, that my left side and arm were almost completely paralyzed.

I have been acquainted with Christian Science for many years, and I have had many proofs of the absolute truth of its teachings. For example, during my first winter as a prisoner during the Second World War, I suffered from sinusitis.

A previous testimony of mine appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel in 1955 and related a healing which occurred overnight. This testimony is written in the hope that it may encourage someone who is seeking the healing of a long-standing difficulty.

When I was a young girl living at home with my parents, my mother was very sick. The doctor said he did not think she would live until morning.

Christian Science has changed my whole way of life. I turned to it when I was in my last year of training as a medical nurse.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude and joy that I recall my first visit to a Christian Science practitioner many years ago, for it was then and there that my journey into the land of Science began. I went with a member of my family who was seeking healing, but I had no thought that I myself needed Science.

I should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science and particularly for a healing that I had while I was attending junior high school. Our city was gripped by an intense fear of infantile paralysis and was in quarantine, the public schools and Sunday Schools having been closed.

One of the cherished recollections of my childhood is that of my mother reading from a big book of Bible stories as my sisters and I clustered about her. I was impressed with the healings Jesus performed, particularly the one of the man whose bed was let down through the roof, so that he lay at the feet of our Master (see Mark 2 ).

Christian Science was first brought to the attention of our family in 1912 when my father was healed of a serious illness. For eighteen months he had searched in vain for healing of a stomach condition through medical treatment and had finally been told that nothing could be done for him.