Testimonies of Healing

I, too , feel impelled to give thanks for the great good which has come into my life since I began studying Christian Science. In a time of great need, when my husband was very ill and had to live apart from me, loving friends drew our attention to Christian Science.

I found Christian Science at a time when my sense of joy seemed turned to sorrow and disappointment. What glorious freedom from these bonds came with the light that Christian Science shed on the problem! I soon understood that joy comes from the only source of true giving, God, the All-in-all; and that reversing the fable that God's child can be deprived of one quality of good, replacing it with the blessed spiritual fact that joy is from God, who is ever present, the only power, the only Mind, and who loves all, brings true joy, strength, and courage in the hour of need.

Gratitude being a spiritual idea, its activity brought to bear on our problems helps to solve them. I have demonstrated this for myself many times.

In April, 1922, I had been ill for fourteen years and was gradually getting worse. During this time I had had six medical attendants, who all agreed that I was suffering from a very serious nervous complaint and that I should never be able to walk again.

Christian Science has been my only physician for more than twenty-five years, and during that time there have been many healings which have proved its efficacy, as well as many times when I have been protected from untoward experiences. The instant availability of the truth as taught in Christian Science to help in time of need was demonstrated not long ago in my experience in such a positive and convincing way that I feel I must express my gratitude for this healing.

As a result of becoming disturbed in thought, I had a severe attack of bronchial catarrh accompanied by fever. I tried to hold the right thoughts, and whenever I employed my time in the reading of Christian Science literature my head became clearer; but afterwards the fever returned all the worse.

Some time ago I awakened in the middle of the night with my consciousness flooded with these words from Isaiah: "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. " At that time I saw no reason for this message, but it was not long afterwards that I did see it as a beacon light to guide me through the darkness or ignorance of the carnal mind, which enticed me to be offended and then to give in to an overwhelming sense of hurt feelings, resulting in resentment and hate.

Christian Science was presented to me in 1913, and it has been a great blessing. A dear friend lent me a Christian Science Journal which I gladly accepted, although I did not have any knowledge of this Science except that I had been told that it healed sick folk.

In gratitude for the blessings which I have experienced and witnessed in my family and among my friends since I first knew about Christian Science, I am submitting this testimony. My first knowledge of our dear Leader was when as a young girl I accompanied my aunt, who was a patient of Mrs.

I am very thankful to God, the Giver of every good and perfect gift, who constantly loves and cares for His children. I was led to take up Christian Science through a desire to know God and to be a better woman, and God's blessings for me since then have been too numerous to relate; but I should like to tell of a few healings which I have received through an understanding of Truth.