Testimonies of Healing

Since the age of nine I have been a student of Christian Science. I did have a few years when I strayed away, but thank goodness, just like the prodigal I returned to the fold.

My wife and I were returning late one night from an out-of-town trip. We were able to catch a commercial shuttle van from the local airport to our home.

We were on a steam train excursion and had been walking around watching the engine being turned on the turntable ready for the trip home. We had to walk through a dark tunnel under the tracks to reboard the train.

I was a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School as a child, but during my teenage years the family dropped away from Christian Science. When I graduated from college, I faced underemployment, and a deeply rooted mental disturbance troubled me for twelve years.

About four years ago a relative and her husband came to visit us. When they arrived, our relative, who is not a Christian Scientist, said to me, "I thought we would be bringing you the flu germ, but I see you have it already.

During my years as a student of Christian Science, I have experienced many wonderful healings of such diverse things as influenza, injured limbs, and severe airplane earaches, as well as protection from criminal activity that was aimed at me. It is with the deepest sense of thankfulness that I relate the following experiences.

I wanted freedom from a very discouraging difficulty, but I wasn't all that confident that healing would occur. I was finding that my study of Christian Science brought me comfort, but I had not personally seen healings that were immediate or unquestionably attributable to prayer.

We sat down for a snack at school. I took a bite and threw up.

Golden pollen was falling on me, swirling in a gentle breeze, glinting as it was kissed by the sun, falling to earth, and covering me as it fell, and it was beautiful. Immediately my thoughts turned to God in grateful prayer.

" Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him" ( I Cor. 2:9 ).