Testimonies of Healing
In the 1970s, my husband, two young daughters, and I lived in a 200-year-old log cabin on ten beautiful acres in the foothills of Pickens County, South Carolina. We had a very simple and self-sufficient lifestyle, living off the land and raising our own food, fruits, and vegetables.
Nine years ago I was an atheist, and had been for all of my adult life. Even though I received some religious training as a child, I never acquired a workable concept of God as an ever-present source of life.
My family has had many healings through Christian Science. When my mother was a young married woman, the medical prognosis was that she would never be able to have children.
My first copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy was purchased from a local Reading Room after a consistent desire to own a personal copy of this historic book. At that time, being out of employment, I could not afford to buy the book I cherished so much.
Even though I am a new reader of Science and Health, it has helped me tremendously. I now realize that before I was doing exactly what it says on page five (lines 22-28) in Science and Health.
SCIENCE AND HEALTH was helpful to me the first time I read it. Within a month I was healed of a sprained ankle.
One day my sister telephoned me and said that she had bought a copy of Science and Health and that she would like to bring it to me. She replied, "If this book will do half as much for you as it has for me, it will be well worth my trip.
I HAD BEEN TAUGHT the Old Testament in Hebrew, but even as a little child I felt there was a mystery — veiled and secret — in those sacred pages. I searched for answers, often in the wrong places, and studied Buddhism, spiritualism, psychology, philosophy.
I HAD JUST FINISHED READING a modern translation of the New Testament and decided that I should also read the Koran, the Book of Mormon, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy to have a complete picture. Science and Health began to be helpful to me as soon as I began to read it.
I did not read Science and Health because I was in need of healing, but to find God and have purpose and satisfaction in life. I have had small physical healings, but the biggest one, which has brought the most blessings, is the healing of deafness in one ear.