Testimonies of Healing
Most of my healings in Christian Science have been in the areas of smoking and drinking, minor physical difficulties, and everyday life challenges. My faith in God and my understanding of Science had not been severely tried until a few years ago.
My heritage in Christian Science since birth has been the foundation for my free choice to be an active Christian Scientist and to utilize its precepts as a guide for living my life. It was the support of my parents through their active practice of Christian Science and their steadfast examples in the home that made for my harmonious and enriching childhood.
What is thy birthright, man, Child of the perfect One; What is thy Father's plan For His beloved son? Thou art Truth's honest child, Of pure and sinless heart; Thou treadest undefiled In Christly paths apart. These words from Hymn No.
"Like as a mother, God comforteth His children" ( Christian Science Hymnal , No. 174 ).
The power of God, good, is always able to guide us "into the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged" ( Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, pp.
"It is only by acknowledging the supremacy of Spirit, which annuls the claims of matter, that mortals can lay off mortality and find the indissoluble spiritual link which establishes man forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his creator" ( Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p.
Christ Jesus said ( Matt. 6:24 ):"No man can serve two masters.
After many years of gaining much from the testimonies of others in our periodicals, I realize I am long overdue in acknowledging some of the blessings the study of Science has brought me and my family. I first learned something of Christian Science when I was twelve years old.
When my mother was a child, her great-aunt was healed of a heart ailment through Christian Science prayer. As a result of this healing, my grandmother and grandfather enrolled their children in a Christian Science Sunday School.
"It works! Mum, it really works!" With these words our younger son, Murray, announced his healing of warts, which had disfigured his hands for some time. We were still very new students of Christian Science but had decided we could work this problem out through prayer.