Testimonies of Healing

I am unable to express in words my gratitude for Christian Science. I am sixteen years old; and as my mother was a Christian Scientist when I was born, it is the only religion I have ever known.

One Saturday while I was playing golf, a box of so-called safety matches ignited in my hand and stuck in the palm. Refusing the great temptation to look at the result of the accident, I continued my game, all the time declaring what little of the truth I possessed.

So many times I have wanted to give my testimony in gratitude for all the good I have received during the past years through the study of Christian Science. It would be quite impossible to tell of all the many proofs I have had of God's goodness.

In December, 1913, one of our children became ill. We called a doctor, who diagnosed the case as erysipelas.

It is with a heart full of gratitude and love that I write of a demonstration of the protecting power of divine Mind which was made in our home. On Saturday morning, the twenty-ninth of October, my little twelve-year-old daughter came to me with a very sore throat.

In childhood I loved to hear about children who applied Christian Science to their needs, so I am grateful for this opportunity to tell something of my own early experience. Among the first things I was taught in Christian Science was the great fact that God, Spirit, is the Father and Mother of man, and that His love is ever present to protect His children from harm.

In the words of the Psalmist: "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise;" "Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving. " One of the several beautiful lessons I learned from the trying experience I wish here to relate, was that daily, hourly, our voices must be raised in thanks to God, and our thoughts filled with gratitude for the many blessings already received, if we hope by higher demonstrations to "enter into his gates" and "come before his presence.

Gratitude impels me to send this testimony, with the hope that it will bring comfort to others, thought space permits me to mention but a few of the many blessings that the study and application of Christian Science have brought into my life. From childhood I had a great desire to know more of the creator.

Six years ago, coming from Chile, South America, I stopped in New York, knowing nothing about Christian Science. A short time after my arrival a young lady came to the house where I was boarding, and from the first moment she attracted my attention by her healthy, happy appearance.

On page 283 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read, "Mind is the source of all movement, and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action. " This passage brought me from darkness into the light of the understanding of Truth, into freedom; for I had been in bondage many years.