Testimonies of Healing
Christian Science came to my notice when a friend who had felt its healing efficacy gave me a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; but with a consciousness steeped in material thinking and consequent material living, I arrogantly and ignorantly spurned its teachings. In bondage to a false sense of love and personality, each ringing truth contained in this wonderful book was a rebuke which the carnal mind resented.
It is over nineteen years since I first heard of Christian Science. It came to me in a time of great sorrow; but when the spiritual light of its teachings burst upon my consciousness, all was turned into joy, for I realized that God does not deprive man, His image and likeness, of any good—that good is his now.
About ten years ago, to mortal sense I was seemingly about to pass on from the effects of influenza and pneumonia. Being the mother of two small children, one a baby of less than a year and the other aged six years, I was overcome with fear and hopelessness.
I should like to tell first of a healing my little girl had five years ago. She was running across the road in pursuit of her brother when she was knocked down and run over by a car.
About eighteen years ago a friend induced me to attend a Wednesday evening testimony meeting at a Christian Science church in San Francisco. One testimony in particular I heard there that night seemed to me to be so impossible that instead of inquiring into it, either to prove or disprove its statements, I ridiculed it.
Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes in the Christian Science textbook, " Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.
With sincere gratitude to Christian Science I should like to relate my healing. About three years ago I suffered constantly from severe hemorrhages.
I first turned to Christian Science that I might learn why so much sorrow should come into our home. Finally, after I had read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, for many years, studied as best I could the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, and attended services for a few weeks, a discord which had caused me much suffering for years seemed to come to a climax.
Many blessings have come to me through studying Christian Science, so that with my heart full of sincere gratitude I should like to relate two wonderful healings. Shortly before the birth of my last child, I slipped on the ice, injuring my spine and displacing an organ.
In loving recognition of what Christian Science is doing for all mankind, I give this testimony. My telephone rang one morning, and when I answered it a strange voice informed me that my daughter had drunk a glass of water in which a bichloride of mercury tablet had been dissolved.