It is with great joy and gratitude that I submit this long overdue testimony. Christian Science has been the way of Life to me ever since I can remember. During my childhood we lived in a rural northern area where the nearest Church of Christ, Scientist, was over fifty miles away. My mother, a dedicated student of Christian Science, taught Sunday School for my brothers and me when we weren't able to attend church. My childhood was a happy one and almost free of physical problems, proving Mrs. Eddy's statement (Science and Health, p. 369), "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood." Christian Science has met my every need, and I have never known any other healing method.
During marriage and the raising of a family, there have been many opportunities to prove God's healing power. The births of our five children were all harmonious events supported by the prayerful work of a dedicated Christian Science practitioner. Previous to each birth, using the Concordances to the writings of Mrs. Eddy, I studied in detail the seven synonyms of God given in Science and Health. They are (p. 587): "Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love." This prayerful study helped me see more clearly the spiritual nature of each of God's little ones. Four of these births, which include a set of twins, took place in our home with the assistance of a Christian Science nurse and a physician, as required by law. The children are all happy, healthy students in the Christian Science Sunday School, where they are learning to use the healing Christ, Truth, in their own lives.
We have had healings of earaches, pleurisy, ivy poisoning, and the effects of accidents. Our youngest daughter, when two years old, fell off a high swing. An older sister carried her into the house. She was unable to move her right arm without pain, and her collarbone appeared to be fractured. Turning away from the material picture, I found this statement from Science and Health coming to me (p. 424): "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony." I called a Christian Science practitioner to help me realize this child's unbroken spiritual identity. From then on the child did not complain of any discomfort.
