Testimonies of Healing

After over five years of earnest study of Christian Science, during which time I have experienced many healings, both spiritual and physical, I feel I must express my heartfelt gratitude for this beautiful truth, so lovingly and unselfishly given to us by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. Christian Science was brought to my notice at a time when I had visions of becoming a semi-invalid, owing to a serious nervous complaint which threatened to deprive me of the use of my right arm.

It is now over seven years since I became interested in Christian Science. At that time I was in a very bad condition.

In my own experience there was a long struggle before I was able to claim the harmony that comes when God is allowed to govern and guide. Having planned a teaching career, I was full of resentment when I found I had failed medically for the profession.

Words cannot express the gratitude I feel towards Christian Science. It came to me in time of great need nineteen years ago.

After meeting with a severe accident, I was told by a physician that I had fractured two ribs just between the shoulders. In about two weeks the bandages were removed, but I still suffered great pain, which seemed to be in my spine.

Some time ago our little boy, aged ten years, was stricken with what the doctors call bronchial pneumonia and pleurisy. For two weeks the doctor attended him every day, and X-ray pictures taken of his lungs were said to show considerable fluid.

Since childhood I had suffered almost uninterruptedly from severe chronic colds, as well as from hereditary stomach and heart trouble. According to the doctors' diagnoses these colds had resulted in an abdominal complaint.

My first experience in Christian Science was of its gentle healing of sorrow and of a sense of separation from loved ones. Within the following two years I was enabled to meet and master, through Christian Science alone, that which I had always feared and believed had power to harm me—tuberculosis of the lungs and throat.

It would take too long to enumerate all the blessings which I have received since I commenced the study of Christian Science. Although I did not take it up for physical healing for myself, the first time I read our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I had an instantaneous healing of chronic sore throat, from which I had suffered since childhood.

Fourteen years ago, through the healing of invalidism I came into Christian Science. At that time my consciousness was pretty well filled with the so-called laws of materia medica, as I had spent seven years in one of our largest hospitals, three years as a pupil nurse and four years as a graduate.