Testimonies of Healing

Recently we had our kitchen completely renovated, along with installation of a new window. One Wednesday evening my husband was in the process of putting up new brackets for the curtains when he was called away.

Four years ago I was deeply depressed. I shed many tears, and although I had been raised in Christian Science, I felt I could find no way out of my apparent misfortune and disappointment.

Many years ago I met the young man whom I later married. At an early age he had been healed in Christian Science of tuberculosis after two doctors had told his mother he had just three weeks to live.

In Revelation 21:5 we find this divine message: "Behold, I make all things new.

As a young woman, my grandmother was told by doctors that she had only a few months to live. Alone with a young son, she left her native Scotland to join relatives who could care for her in Canada.

In hopes of encouraging someone who may be searching for comfort and healing, I share the following testimony as proof that divine Love does heal difficulties of all sorts completely and permanently. Seven or eight years ago I was a young adult in great need of healing.

Although Christian Science did not take hold in my life until rather late in my adult years, the seed was planted in early childhood. A cherished memory of my father, who passed on when I was about four and a half, centers on Christian Science and was, in part, the means of bringing me into Science.

Christian Science found me during the Second World War, when we opened our home to a young woman who was in the armed forces and needed somewhere to stay. She was a Christian Scientist, and she let her light shine.

When I was a child, my family lived on a cattle ranch in a western state. Since we were eighty miles from the nearest branch church and Christian Science Sunday School, I went to a community Sunday School in a local school building.

"Christian Science heals!" This thought-provoking statement, voiced by a man in an office in the City of London just prior to the Second World War, attracted the attention of a young woman who worked there. She went to a nearby Christian Science Reading Room and borrowed a copy of the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.