This grateful testimony comes from a heart filled to overflowing with God's manifold blessings and is given with a desire to help others as I have been helped.
No one ever came to Christian Science with less faith in its ability to heal than I did. What I was looking for was peace of mind. Frustration, self-condemnation, unhappiness, and a rather pointless existence, which was becoming rapidly more monotonous, drove me to seek something outside of my own selfish desires.
In the Bible we read (Luke 11:9), "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." While reading Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy I was healed of a growth on the bottom of my foot that had been there for several years. This growth had been removed once by surgery but had grown back again in a short while. Doctors had told me that nothing further could be done except to wear special supports in my shoes to make me as comfortable as possible. The healing took place over six years ago and has been permanent.
As a result of this healing I became much interested in Christian Science and began to study in earnest. The desire for membership in a Church of Christ, Scientist, brought about an instantaneous healing of the smoking habit, to which I had been a slave for nearly twenty years. This was quickly followed by the healing of social drinking.
The members of my family are also students of this Christ Science, and we have had many proofs of God's loving care for His children. Among these proofs are the healing of measles, mumps, colds, wasp stings, and cuts.
An outstanding healing took place after a speeding car struck a horse which one of our daughters was riding. The girl was thrown to the concrete pavement and sustained injuries to her head and leg as well as minor cuts and abrasions. A Christian Science practitioner was called immediately, and we were lovingly assured that accidents are unknown in God's kingdom and that Christian Science treatment would be given at once. In a short while our daughter fell asleep. She awakened in about thirty minutes saying she was hungry and wanted something to eat. After eating she ran out to play, much to the amazement of neighbors who had known the details of the accident. So quickly did the evidence of the experience disappear that when the girl's grandmother came to visit that evening, she was not even aware that anything had happened to the child at all.
The healing of a badly sprained ankle took place in a very few minutes when irritation and resentment were overcome in my own thinking. I am deeply grateful for these and many other healings, but I am most grateful for the understanding of the allness and oneness of our Father-Mother God and of man as His image and likeness. That all error can be proved powerless is being manifested in our daily experience. I have found that the study and application of Christian Science have made me truly happy, because I am understanding joy to be a spiritual quality that will never be taken away or withheld by an all-loving God.
I am grateful to God for Christian Science, for Christ Jesus our Way-shower, and for Mrs. Eddy, whose spiritual devotion and revelation have blessed all mankind. In addition, I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church and for all the world-wide activities of the Christian Science movement, as well as for the continuing unfoldment of class instruction.— Glendora, California.
I am happy to verify my husband's testimony and to express gratitude for the healing of an injury to the middle finger on my right hand when it was shut in a truck door. At first the pain was intense and the finger was out of shape. As I maintained that God, good, is everywhere, the pain faded away. I knew that God knows nothing of accidents, and I was able to go about my duties freely. The next morning, except for two thin red lines, my finger was entirely normal. I am grateful for the loving help my family gave me then and whenever I have had a testing time. Also, I am grateful for Mother Church and branch church membership, for class instruction, and for the privilege of working with The Christian Science Monitor Youth Forum.
