Testimonies of Healing
Like a great many others I came to Christian Science because I needed physical healing, being crippled with what doctors told me was sciatic rheumatism. I was urged to turn to Christian Science, and finally did so.
When I think of all the good that has come to me through the study and application of Christian Science, I hardly know where to begin in enumerating my blessings. When Christian Science was first presented to me, I certainly seemed to need it, for besides never having been strong or in good health, I also suffered severely from faults of disposition, extreme shyness and sensitiveness, nervousness and fear.
I wish to express my gratitude for the healing of a very troublesome skin disease on our baby. A physician who saw the child expressed the opinion that it was a case for a specialist.
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings. " This marvelous statement, as given on the first page of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, has proved to be a real beacon light to me.
I am truly grateful for all the good that has come into my life through the application of Christian Science. From being discordant and unhappy I have been lifted to a peaceful and happy state of consciousness.
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.