Testimonies of Healing
Ten years ago I was healed of insomnia by reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I did not understand the book at the time, but the truth contained in each statement quieted my thought and healed me.
The first healing I experienced in Christian Science was that of a dislocated hip. For days I had suffered almost unbearable pain.
I should like to add my testimony of gratitude to that of my husband. Before my marriage I had spent the greater part of seven years in hospitals as a trained nurse.
Laboring under the belief of hereditary traits of character, temperament, and diseases, I measured the years of the life I was to live by that of several near relatives who had passed on in early life after much affliction. I believed that I, too, was doomed to the same physical misfortune.
About seven years ago, my mental condition was such that confinement in an insane asylum was seriously considered by my family. A kind neighbor who called on me left two or three copies of The Christian Science Journal , which I read with much interest.
It is impossible for me to convey in words the depth of my gratitude for Christian Science, through the study of which I have learned what John meant when he said, "God is love. " I did not seek Christian Science because of any physical need.
About seven years ago, I came to Christian Science for help for a serious chronic, and at that time acute, digestional disorder. It seemed, due to the sense of weakness caused by the inability to eat or retain food, that I should be unable to conclude my year of teaching.
When I first took up the study of Christian Science its students did not have the many helps they have today. We did not have the many church organizations and Reading Rooms, neither did we have all of Mrs.
During the eleven years I have been a member of the Christian Science organization I have been grateful for opportunities to express my thankfulness for the truth. One demonstration was the painless birth of a little son.
I came into Christian Science through a wonderful healing of a very serious illness—a case of hemorrhages, the cause or origin of which baffled the physicians. After having two physicians in almost constant attendance for nearly a week, with only an increasing sense of fear on my part, I realized I must have the help the doctors seemed unable to give.