Testimonies of Healing

For several years during a period of economic depression, I was troubled with impaired hearing. This condition developed at a time of great shock and sorrow.

Although Christian Science was presented to me two or three times during a twenty-year period, I did not turn to it for help until a mental disturbance, manifesting itself in the form of fear for our children, so engulfed me in darkness and helplessness that life held no interest for me, and all I could think of was how it could be brought to an end. Then urged by my loving husband, I consented to have him call the Christian Science Wartime Minister (as such workers were then called) for the post at which my husband was stationed at the time.

Through the study and practice of Christian Science and with the help of a practitioner, I have been blessed during the last three years or so with many physical healings, as well as healings of fear, sorrow, a sense of limitation, a bad temper, swearing, and alcoholic drinking. I should like first to tell how I found Science.

When Christian Science was first presented to me I was in great need of help. I was suffering from an acute infection of the sinuses.

I am ever more grateful for having been reared as a Christian Scientist. It is a happy privilege to be able to put the scientific understanding of being to practical use every day and to be able to share the wonderful truths of God and man with our children and also with a teen-age Sunday School class.

It is a great privilege to be a Christian Scientist and to have the opportunity to apply God's law to the problems which come to us to be solved, whether they are physical difficulties or unhappy human relationships. The truth that man has no alternative but to reflect God was proved to me in the healing of a discordant situation in an office where I was employed.

After describing in "Unity of Good" several types of healings which she had accomplished, Mrs. Eddy states ( p.

Christian Science is very dear to me because it has lifted me from the depths of fear, doubt, discouragement, and uncertainty. For many years I wavered between the desire to be a student of it and the fear that I would not be able to apply its teachings successfully in the event of illness or accident.

For a number of years I was bothered by congestion of the lungs caused by an asthmatic condition which at times made breathing difficult. Although I had help from a Christian Science practitioner in addition to my own prayers and study, and received relief, the healing was not complete.

As a girl and young woman I often had a great longing for something, I knew not what; but I thought it was for good health, since before I was twenty-five years of age I had had two surgical operations and was also taking drugs for neurasthenia and acute depression. For many years I lived in almost daily fear of losing my reason.