Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science has so entirely changed my life in the thirteen years I have been studying it that it seems almost impossible to find words to express all that it means to me. In July, 1915, after being ill for nearly a year, I was told by our family physician and a specialist to whom he sent me that I had lung and heart trouble, and that there was little or no hope of recovery.

One morning when relatives had returned home from a vacation trip and a great deal of visiting was being done, a sense of suffering presented itself to my thought, and later the word "mastoid" kept coming to me. The manifestation became greatly aggravated during the afternoon, and about six o'clock a Christian Science practitioner was called.

Profound gratitude to God and to Christian Science prompts me to give this testimony. For twenty years I suffered from a very bad eye complaint, which grew worse each year, until nine years ago I was almost blind.

I gratefully and humbly give thanks to God for the blessings I have experienced since I have had the privilege of knowing of this wonderful Christ-Science. It has transformed and illumined my life; it has helped me to correct wrong thinking; it has enabled me to overcome to a great extent feelings of resentment and injustice; it is giving me greater peace, more real love, and a better understanding of man in God's image and likeness.

In humble gratitude I should like to tell of some of the many blessings I have received from Christian Science. I first heard of this Science in 1919, but it was not until the summer of 1924 that I was driven by mental and physical suffering to seek relief through it; and the strange part of it was that I knew all that time I had only to turn to Christian Science to be healed.

My gratitude will no longer permit me to delay in expressing profound thankfulness for the wonderful revelation of Truth given to the world by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and for the health and happiness which I enjoy to-day because of its ministration. I shall never cease to be grateful that I had some understanding of Christian Science at the time of a serious illness, and could therefore be surrounded by the tireless love and wisdom of a Christian Science practitioner and a Christian Science nurse; for by their faithful work the "last enemy" was held in abeyance, and during days of unconsciousness and of intense suffering I was sustained.

Several years ago, with a friend, I attended a Sunday morning service in a Christian Science church, and saw on the wall behind the desk the following statement from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy ( p. 494 ): "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

It is just a few years since I heard for the first time the words, "God is Love. " I am grateful to those who have helped me to realize the truth of this statement.

I had been in poor health for many months and had given up hope of recovery, yet had been praying that if Christian Science was of God someone would come and present it to me—and then my mother suggested that she consult a Christian Science practitioner about my case. In order to let God lead, I made reply to my mother's suggestion with these words: "We have a right to try the doctrine and see whether it be of God.

Just before taking up the study of Christian Science, I was dissatisfied with what I thought was life. I was a member of an orthodox church and always enjoyed the sermons and the work of the Sunday school, yet I always wondered what the "wisdom" and "understanding" could be of which we read in the Bible.