Testimonies of Healing

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.

Although I had become interested in Christian Science during my high school years, I did not begin to study it until after I had been married to a practicing Scientist for three years. He visited my Protestant church, and I occasionally attended services with him at the Church of Christ, Scientist, where he had attended Sunday School up to the age of twenty.

Although I have been a student of Christian Science for fifty years, I have never submitted a written testimony; so I am now correcting that omission. I am grateful that I had a mother who was very spiritually-minded and that I was brought up in a Christian atmosphere.

I am grateful to have been raised in Christian Science. I have experienced healings of injuries, relationship troubles, and difficulties concerned with home and location.

Recently I visited a lovely woman who reminded me of the wonderful healing that brought my grandparents into Christian Science. As a young girl in the early 1900s, this woman had been a school friend of my mother and my aunt.

One night after driving into our garage, my husband and I were confronted by two men armed with pistols. They forced us to lie down on the garage floor where we were bound and gagged.