Testimonies of Healing

For nearly forty years I worked as a traveling salesman. Many have been the instances of healing, protection, and guidance through prayerfully applying the teachings of Christian Science, both at home and while on the road.

Christian Science is the only way of life I have known. With much gratitude for the many wonderful healings I have had and seen, I mention a few of the discordant conditions that have been overcome through Christian Science: colds, constipation, alcoholism, lack, unhappy relations, and grief.

As a child growing up in a family of practicing Christian Scientists, I witnessed many healings and found it natural to trust God, Love. One healing that has stood out as a landmark to me in the years since occurred while I was still in elementary school.

Christian Science is wonderful, and I am grateful to be a lifelong student of this teaching. When I was in high school, I suffered what appeared to be a severe hemorrhage of the lungs.

For four years after I was married I didn't attend church, although I never stopped reading and praying and studying Christian Science. During that time I wasn't very well.

At one time I served as a Reader for a large college organization. During one service I mistakenly read some of the citations out of order.

Although I had attended a Christian Science Sunday School while I was growing up, I lost interest in this teaching during my teens. It was not until after the Second World War, when working amidst the moral and physical bankruptcy of postwar Europe, that I started looking for an answer to the questions that confronted me.

A few years ago the headlines were filled with reports of breast cancer. Several leading ladies in society were undergoing operations for it, and talk of this ran rampant.

"We're right back where we started from" was the depressing thought that greeted me as I woke up one morning. Circumstances certainly seemed similar to what they had been when we were first married.

While I was growing up, my mother and I lived in a poor area of a large city. This was during the Depression, and our income was so small that a college education seemed beyond what we could afford.