Testimonies of Healing
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.
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.
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.
SCIENCE AND HEALTH was helpful to me the first time I read it. Within a month I was healed of a sprained ankle.
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.
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 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.
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.
WHERE DO I BEGIN? When I finally obtained a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, I was at one of the lowest points in my life. I felt very alone and separated from God.