Testimonies of Healing

This testimony can express only a small portion of the gratitude I feel for a lifetime of blessings! To attend a Christian Science Sunday School from an early age was a wonderful privilege, and it has been a great joy to see my children and grandchildren have the same experience. My happy acceptance of what I understood of Christian Science undergirded all my early years but was never severely tested until my husband suddenly passed away when our son was just past two and I was pregnant with our second son.

When I was a child my grandmother regularly took my sisters and me to a Christian Science Sunday School. I remember that I enjoyed it very much, especially hearing that I was the beloved child of God.

One weekend several years ago my wife and I visited friends in western Massachusetts. On Sunday morning our entourage hurriedly got ready to attend a branch church service in a nearby town.

Recently, in need of comfort, I started to list healings I'd had through prayer. When I got to thirty-five in a few minutes, I found myself wondering why I had never submitted a written testimony! At the age of two, I was healed of typhoid.

Christian Science was presented to my mother before I was born, after the passing of her four-and-a-half-year-old son. A woman gave my mother a copy of Science and Health by Mrs.

In 1955 a growth developed on my neck for which two doctors recommended immediate surgery. A dear friend, a Christian Scientist, knowing of my reluctance to have an operation, suggested I try Christian Science.

My first testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel over thirty years ago. Since that time I have continued to have many proofs, through the study and application of Christian Science, of the healing, protecting, and guiding power of God.

I have been a practicing Christian Scientist for many years and have been blessed by the study and application of the teachings of Christian Science. A written testimony of some of the healings I have had is long overdue.

There have been many occasions in my life, especially when a problem continued over a period of time, to prove the truth of this statement in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ( p. 66 ): "Trials are proofs of God's care.

It is a privilege and a joy to testify to the healing power of Christian Science. Several years ago a severe pain developed in my lower back, which made all movement both painful and difficult.