Testimonies of Healing
I rejoice in the El Dorado of hope fulfilled! After many years in which I suffered a physical burden from mentally reliving wartime experiences, they now find no place in my thought, and, therefore, I no longer suffer physically. But first let me say, Christian Science has been my only physician since infancy.
While I was a pupil in the Christian Science Sunday School, a recurring rash on my body troubled me for some months. One evening the symptoms worsened while I was staying overnight with a friend.
From my earliest years I attended the Christian Science Sunday School and loved deeply the spiritual truths taught me by my teachers and parents. During my teen years, healings of hives, warts, trench mouth, sties, tonsillitis, acne, and sports injuries propelled me to read the Bible and Science and Health by Mrs.
After my father had been told by doctors that he had a matter of weeks to live, my mother took up the study of Christian Science to help him. An acquaintance learned of this and took Mother and me to our first Wednesday testimony meeting in a branch church.
The teachings of Christian Science have enabled me to place a greater value on understanding immortal Life and its purpose; on divine Love and its redemptive mission. Science has also answered the many questions that puzzled me as a teenager, especially these two: "What is life?" and "Where do I fit into this continuing process of circumstances and situations?" The answers did not all come at once, but as soon as I resolved to seek them by turning to God through Christian Science, it was as if the same angel that spoke to Daniel centuries ago was present speaking to me, saying ( Dan.
When I was a new student of Christian Science, I was eager "to see it work. " What I was learning from reading the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.
Dissatisfaction with life, even in small ways, is a type of burden because it tries to draw us away from recognizing the continuous, loving care of God. Mental trickery such as this is only a false human concept originating in an erring mortal mind.
A friend introduced my mother to Christian Science when my two brothers and I were children. Mother had been seeking a better understanding of God, and she immediately accepted the truth of this teaching.
Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes in Retrospection and Introspection ( p.
My teen-age years were plagued by many ailments. Hay fever, pneumonia, colds, flu, and a painful lung condition followed one after another and kept me from attending school much of the time.