Testimonies of Healing

As a new student of Christian Science, I turned to this teaching in an extremity, at a time when I could no longer see a reason to live. And through Christian Science I learned that this extremity was not to be the end of my life, but instead marked a beginning.

I attended a Christian Science Sunday School from age four to twenty and also joined The Mother Church. But during and after college I found myself drifting away from this teaching.

Some years ago while at work, and in a great hurry at the time, I caught my fingers in the door of a heavy safe. With my free hand I managed to open the door, but when I looked at the other hand, I knew that I had to do something without delay.

Christian Science came into my life at a time of need. It was an answer to prayer, to my deep yearning to know God better.

The encouragement I've received from reading the inspiring accounts of healings in the Christian Science periodicals impels me to add my own. As I count my blessings, heading the list is the fact that my parents were receptive when an American business acquaintance lovingly introduced them to Christian Science and helped them obtain a copy of the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (in German) while they were living in Switzerland.

One night while driving home alone, I noticed a vehicle following me that was moving erratically. As it was late, my errand to buy water from a machine in a nearby parking lot seemed unwise.

Just a few years ago I took up the study of Christian Science. Prior to this I had emptied the local library of every book they had on healing and various religious teachings.

During college I was advised by an eye doctor that I needed glasses. On my way home from this appointment I gave the situation some thought.

In late summer of 1962, I was in Edinburgh, Scotland, nearing the end of a fifteen-month period of graduate study and travel. At the time, Edinburgh was jampacked with tourists and students.

More than once I have wanted to contribute to our periodicals my gratitude for Christian Science, but each time I have been deterred by the necessity of choosing, from among a multitude, a few examples of the great things God has done for me. But having passed the tenth anniversary of life under the authority of this wonderful Science, I feel I must share something.