Testimonies of Healing
Divine Love surely led our family to Christian Science. One Sunday in the early 1960s a daughter suggested that we attend the Church of Christ, Scientist, across the street.
Christian Science came into my life more than thirty years ago, while I was living and working in Geneva, Switzerland. A copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy was put into my hands by the husband of a colleague.
In ancient times, pearls were considered among the most precious of gems, something of extraordinary value. In the Bible, Christ Jesus speaks of the "pearl of great price," the kingdom of heaven, and of the merchant man who sold all that he had to buy it (see Matt.
Two years ago, when my family and I were taking a motor trip I collapsed and lost consciousness while I was waiting to pay the check in a restaurant. When I regained consciousness I struggled to get up only to discover a stranger was holding me.
Some years ago while I was in the regular company of one particular man through work we were doing together, I began to feel very attracted physically to him. He had told me that he could read other people's minds and had implied he knew how to manipulate others.
I was eleven years old when my mother was led to investigate Christian Science. Mother had been a faithful member of a Christian church but had become dissatisfied with it when she was in her twenties.
I am a third-generation Christian Scientist and am very grateful to have been raised in Christian Science. I am particularly grateful for the clear understanding I gained in the Christian Science Sunday School that all difficulties can be resolved by our turning to God.
A firework explodes in the author's hand, but prayer leads to the family witnessing divine Love's healing presence.
In 1913 my parents sent me from a small town in the central United States to a large city on the West Coast to attend college. They hoped the climate there would help me cope with the severe attacks of asthma I had been suffering from for years.
At one point a recurring illness caused me great distress, and I prayed to overcome it. The condition seemed to follow a course and lasted several hours.