Testimonies of Healing

With a grateful heart I wish to testify to the blessings which I have received through Christian Science. My attention was called to this teaching by a friend who had been healed of a sickness of many years' standing.

In one of her poems (Poems, p. 75 ), Mrs.

About the time I entered high school, some seventeen years ago, I became acquainted with Christian Science through my mother, who, on her return from a near-by city, told me not only of the miraculous healing of a relative, whom the physicians had given up as incurable, but also of many other wonderful things that were being accomplished, which had heretofore been considered impossible. Later, my mother purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; and I shall never forget the joy of finding, as we pored over its pages together, a textbook on thinking which not only was as logical and as accurate as the study of mathematics, but was capable of solving and healing every woeful condition of the human race.

" How did you happen to become interested in Christian Science?" This is usually the first question asked a Christian Scientist by one who has just learned of his religious beliefs, and the question which every student of this great Science is happy to answer in sincerity and humility. All of us who have experienced the joy of a spiritual healing know what an overwhelming sense of gratitude it brings, and are glad to testify to the fact that God is "a very present help in trouble.

Fourteen years ago Christian Science came into my life. I was lying in a nursing home, a suffering, diseased, and utterly discouraged woman, when I first heard of Christian Science.

Several years ago I attended a Christian Science lecture and was so deeply impressed with the logic of it that I decided I had found what I had been searching for all my life. I did not come into Christian Science for physical healing.

In the hope that this testimony will bring renewed courage to some one, I wish to relate some of the things which Christian Science has done for me. It is not possible for me to describe all the blessings that I have received through this teaching.

Soon after I took up the study of Christian Science, a practitioner who was giving me treatments asked me to memorize the "scientific statement of being," as it appears in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy ( p. 468 ).

When I first began the study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I knew that I had found the truth of which Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. " My progress at the beginning seemed rapid.

It is a privilege to add my note of gratitude for Christian Science to the great chorus of audible and inaudible testimonies that are daily ascending from grateful hearts throughout the whole world; gratitude to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, for having cleared away the mists of false theology, and given us again the God of our Way-shower, Jesus the Christ, the God of love, of whom Jesus said, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. " My early childhood was one of delicacy and unhappiness.