Testimonies of Healing

With deep gratitude I desire to give a testimony of the many blessings I have received through Christian Science. A Sentinel was sent to me by a friend to see if I could find anything in it that would help another in my home.

In 1918 my husband and I were spending the winter in St. Louis, Missouri.

Christian Science is more to me than words can express. I began reading the literature with the view of helping a member of my family, thinking at the time I did not need it; but I soon found out I did.

To me Christian Science means progress. What I am most thankful for is that in studying Christian Science we are forced to work out our own salvation, because I can see that if this were not so, I should still be leaning on a broken reed, instead of on the truth that makes us free, which is that God is All-in-all.

When I first became interested in Christian Science, it was not because I wanted physical healing, but because I was dissatisfied and wanted a better understanding of God; and to my great delight I soon found joy and peace, far beyond my expectations. In the winter of 1919, I was assisting in a large municipal kitchen fitted out with gas ranges, when I came in contact with a gas explosion from one of them.

I am grateful for the joy and blessings received from God through the correct understanding of Him as divine Mind, as taught in Christian Science. Three years ago I took up the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, being prompted to do so for physical healing; and I am most thankful for the health I now enjoy.

Christian Science was presented to me at a most opportune time. After two years spent in studying Mrs.

Truth can be applied not only to the healing of disease, but to all the problems of daily life. We had trouble in connection with a bill, which we had paid, but the payment of which was contested.

When Christian Science came to me I had no understanding of religion, but my great desire was to find some means of learning to know more about God, in order to teach my children the one thing that seemed to me most necessary in their lives. Mrs.

Sometimes we have experiences from which we do not get the full import until in after years. Recently, while I was thinking over past experiences and the lessons they have taught, my attention was particularly called to the statement on page 147 of the Christian Science textbook.