Testimonies of Healing
An important lesson was learned in the early years of my study of Christian Science. I was not yet a member of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, but I did faithfully study the Bible Lessons outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly.
I have always been grateful for the testimonies in the periodicals and have often found that thoughts contained in them have helped me in healing. I hope that the following will encourage someone who now finds himself in a similar employment situation.
I have received many blessings through the study and practice of this wonderful religion, Christian Science. One outstanding healing occurred about four years ago.
My gratitude for Christian Science is overflowing, because if it had not been for this wonderful truth, I would probably not be here today. I became interested in Christian Science while in my mid-teens—not for healing, but mostly out of curiosity.
During my early teens I stopped going to the Christian Science Sunday School because I couldn't relate to it. When my marriage broke up over ten years later, I began looking desperately for some indication that there was something about this life that I could depend on.
I am very grateful to have been raised in a home where Christian Science was practiced, for Christian Science has always been a way of life for me. As a child and teen-ager I had many occasions to use this Science.
About twenty years ago my husband and I decided that we wanted to have a child. After quite some time had passed and I hadn't conceived, my husband, who is not a Christian Scientist, asked me to go to a doctor to have some tests made.
It is high time I submit another testimony. When I faced up to the challenge of writing one, I saw that I really wanted to.
To write of what Christian Science has done for me is impossible without first acknowledging, with great gratitude, that the good brought to the world by this Science has come solely through the inspired writings of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. From childhood I have found that God is "a very present help in trouble" ( Ps.
Christian Science has always been my way of life. My mother sent us children to the Christian Science Sunday School, where she felt we would learn to be loving and kind.