I recently had a sweet experience using JSH-Online.com. I had always heard that my great-grandmother became a Christian Scientist after she was healed. But I wanted to know more about her healing. I suddenly thought of looking up her name on “Journal, Sentinel, Herald Online,” to see if she had ever written a testimony that was published. So I searched, but there was nothing. Then I looked up her daughter’s name, and lo and behold, there was a testimony (see Cheryl Clingman Pflager, Christian Science Sentinel, September 1, 1923). Not only did this daughter tell about how her mother had been healed, but she also told how that healing had inspired her to study Christian Science for herself. She went on to tell how she, her husband, and her children had all been healed of various diseases and issues. One of those three children was my mother.
So here was a unique link to family members, allowing me to know them through their spiritual progress and gratitude. Though I had grown up with most of the people mentioned, I had not heard of these healings. I was inspired to express my own gratitude for Christian Science in writing. Here are two examples of how it has blessed me.
The first experience happened when my two sisters and I were very young. We had what my father thought was impetigo. He was not a Christian Scientist, and he’d had medical treatment for this problem when he was a boy. But he agreed that my mother, who was a Christian Scientist, could pray for us girls with a Christian Science practitioner.
