Testimonies of Healing

It is with great joy that I verify what my wife has written in her testimony. I am so grateful to have been raised in Christian Science and to be able to raise our children in Science.

I am very grateful to have been raised in a loving family of Christian Scientists. I grew up attending a Christian Science Sunday School.

I first learned of Christian Science while on duty in the medical department of a United States naval hospital in 1942. During a perusal of the shelves in the main library of the hospital, I came upon Science and Health by Mrs.

When I was a baby of fourteen months, I had been through a long period of whooping cough when double pneumonia developed. The physicians said there was little hope of recovery.

As I was growing up, when something unfortunate would happen to me or to a friend or relative, I used to think, "Well, that's life. " That's what I had been taught, and I believed it.

The healing power of the Christ, Truth, as explained in Christian Science, has been very evident throughout my life. One healing in particular is most precious to me because it showed me how important it is to watch one's thinking.

About ten years ago when our family was living in an Asian city, I was serving as First Reader for the group of Christian Scientist there. I had recently presented copies of Science and Health by Mrs.

As a young man I made an extensive hiking tour through a mountainous region. In so doing, I had to cover quite a lot of distance from one lodging to the next.

" I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten," promises the Bible in the book of Joel. I am grateful for an experience that taught me the true meaning of restoration —showing me that what is really "restored" is the true, spiritual concept of being.

I am deeply grateful for Christian Science. I was raised in this Science but fell away from its teachings during my teens.