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Testimonies of Healing

Our family has been greatly blessed by...

From the May 1978 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Our family has been greatly blessed by the study of Christian Science. It has been our sole physician since I was a child. We have had many healings, both of physical disorders and of character traits. I offer this testimony in witness of God's healing ever-presence, to say with the Psalmist, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who for giveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases" (Ps. 103:2, 3).

When I was newly married, a condition was diagnosed as erosion of the cervix. I had not been aware of any problem. Medical treatment was foreign to the way I had been raised in Christian Science. In my heart I knew I could not be tempted to fall away from what I knew to be true of God and man as taught in Christian Science. I knew I could not be tempted to pursue any other method of healing. I held to these truths and to the statement in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 129): "We must abandon pharmaceutics, and take up ontology,— the science of real being.' We must look deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things." A subsequent examination some years later, at the time of the birth of our son, confirmed my healing, which had come about through prayer alone.

I had had a lovely healing shortly before, when I was X-rayed for a per employment exam. (This had given me added reason to stay with Christian Science during the above.) The examiners asked me to come in and repeat the X ray, because they were concerned. At that time I was very fearful and called a Christian Science practitioner for help in prayer. She gave me the statement (I John 1:5), "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." This was exactly what I needed to hear, for I then realized that I, as God's reflection, was also filled with light, having no dark places. To paraphrase Jesus' words in Luke 11:34, my whole body was full of light. This dispelled the great fear, and the second set of X rays (which were different from the first, and very detailed) found no trace of any problem.

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