Testimonies of Healing
The Holy Bible , and Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, have been constant companions and sources of inspiration, comfort, and healing throughout my life. After I became a member of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, my first committee appointment was that of usher outside the Sunday School room door.
One evening after work my husband and I decided not to fix dinner at home, but to go out to eat. We had no more than left, apparently, when a neighbor was driving by our house and noticed a bit of smoke coming out of our roof.
About twenty-five years, ago, not long after buying our first house, I became bedridden. Other family members were painting the house and doing all the chores, besides taking care of me.
Words are inadequate to express how grateful I am for Christian Science. I am a third-generation Christian Scientist, raised in a home where this teaching was our way of life.
In Science and Health ( p. xi ), Mary Baker Eddy speaks of "a divine influence ever present in human consciousness"—the Christ.
When my husband and I found that we were expecting our first child, we were extremely surprised. We had been married only two years, and our plan was to wait several more before thinking about a family.
During the First World War, my father was discharged from the army as unfit for duty because of a perforated eardrum from a bomb blast. As a civilian, he spent many years trying every medical treatment and patent medicine that he could find, but to no avail.
Some months back a growth had developed in my armpit. This grew to a very alarming and painful state just as I was preparing for a teaching contract at a college.
WHAT A TRUE BLESSING Christian Science has been to me. I have relied on it for healings of broken ankles, cuts, burns, financial difficulties, relationship problems, and numerous other difficulties.
SOMETIMES A HEALING stands out as a beacon that really assures us and confirms our trust in God as the only real power and healer. This happened to me shortly after leaving Sunday School.