
Testimonies of Healing
"Finally, a chance to actually meet one. " That was my first thought when finding out a co-worker had been raised in Christian Science.
I had been a member of a church of another denomination all my life and had always relied on medical care. After receiving treatment from eight doctors over a period of six and a half years without success, I discontinued the medical attention.
Many years ago, during my last year at school, I stopped to look in the window of a Christian Science Reading Room. A Bible was open to these words of Christ Jesus: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father" (John).
My husband was a Christian Science lecturer for ten years. Each lecture tour involved several months of steady travel and the giving of five or six lectures a week.
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.
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.