Testimonies of Healing
Looking back over the many years during which my husband and I raised a family of six children, I realize what a blessing it was to have had the benefits of Christian Science in our home. While we indeed saw many demonstrations of Christian healing, the experiences of illness or injury were remarkably small.
Before my husband and I married, he had become interested in Christian Science. Following the Second World War, he had been healed of deep depression after his physician could do no more for him.
When I was a young girl my mother was medically diagnosed as having a physical condition considered incurable. Her own mother had been healed of a serious illness by turning to Christian Science, and so my mother now turned to the study of this wonderful Science.
I first became aware of Christian Science when a friend lent me a book relating the experiences of someone who united with the Christian Science movement in its early days. I was attracted to the idea of being able to prove an understanding of God in practical ways.
Some years ago when I was teaching piano full time in our home, I was hurrying one afternoon between lessons to prepare dinner for guests. When I opened a can, the jagged edge of the can cut deeply into my palm.
Christian Science came into our family in 1896 through the healing of my mother as a teen-ager. She had been out of school for two years because of ill health and had been told that her only hope lay in an exploratory operation.
" Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones" ( Isa. 57:15 ).
When my mother found Christian Science, she told me it answered her questions about God and reality and life, and she urged me to read the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.
My heart is so full of gratitude for being able to testify to the healing power of Christian Science. More than sixty years ago I received my first healing in Christian Science.
Healings achieved through study of the Bible and the writings of Mrs. Eddy have helped to make God a living reality to me, rather than a far-off miracle worker.