Testimonies of Healing

I would like to express some of the immeasurable thanks I feel for Christian Science. It has been for me like the leaven the woman put in the three measures of meal (see Luke 13:21); it has transformed my goals, motives, well-being, perception, relationships—my very life.

Shortly after having taken Christian Science class instruction I had a wonderfully quick healing of a severe burn. I had borrowed an electric heating element to start the coals in our barbecue pit, and since we decided to go for a boat ride on the lake, I thought it wise to remove the element before we started.

In 1984, after several years of ill health, I was told by a respected gynaecologist that my only hope of regaining full health was to undergo a hysterectomy. Since I was only twenty-eight years old, had been married for just three years, and had no children, I was devastated.

Some years ago I had a healing of deafness. Hearing had first stopped in one ear, and I depended on the other.

To hold persistently to divine Truth and to insist persistently for the truth will bring healing. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "By lifting thought above error, or disease, and contending persistently for truth, you destroy error" ( p.

God has blessed my life over and over again, and I feel compelled to give thanks for this with a testimony. Through Christian Science I came finally to know that God really exists.

I was born a very sickly child, and it was hard for my mother to find food I could keep on my stomach. Before I was ten years old I had had the measles twice, whooping cough, chickenpox, and yellow jaundice.

Some months ago I came across a childhood memento, a 78 rpm recording my uncle had made of me singing hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal when I was just five years old. I was amused in listening to it after all these years because, as I sang those hymns from memory and a cappella, I got the verses scrambled; and at the end of each verse I would raise the pitch, until at the last verse I was squealing as high as I could go! As humorous as I found this, I was also surprised at how earnestly and emphatically I had sung some of the hymns.

I'm very appreciative of the good that has come to me and to my family because of the desire and effort to practice the Science of Christ. A Christian Scientist for many years, I once thought everyone perceived things as I did: that man (you and I) is not cursed; that man is not evil; that man is spiritual.

A beautiful gold locket I often wear has a photograph of a smiling young couple with their little two-year-old son— my mother and dad and their first child. These smiles soon turned to tears, however, for the little one suddenly became very ill, and even though the very best medical help was sought, he died of pneumonia.