Testimonies of Healing
Healings within my own family, if told in detail, would fill the testimony sections of several issues of the Christian Science periodicals. Both my husband and I were convinced of the efficacy of Christian Science long before we met at college.
For weeks one summer we were greatly disturbed by some neighborhood children. They rode their bicycles through our yard and a neighbor's flower beds, kicked our dog, causing her to bark and chase them, looked in our windows, and rang our doorbell at 6 a.
In September 1972, I began to attend services in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. The truths read from Science and Health by Mrs.
"God requires our whole heart, and He supplies within the wide channels of The Mother Church dutiful and sufficient occupation for all its members" ( Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy, Art.
One evening, at a branch church business meeting, it was emphasized that our area had no advertising representative for The Christian Science Monitor . The position had been vacant for some time.
When I was a child, and before I knew of Christian Science, my mother passed on quite suddenly. Stunned, I refused to return to Sunday School.
Although I attended the Christian Science Sunday School and dearly loved it, I felt I hadn't learned just how to use what was being presented to me. I cherished the knowledge that God is to be honored, and that He cares for each of us.
For almost ten years I suffered from insomnia and took prescribed medications in an effort to find rest at night. Sometimes I used several different medicines simultaneously when taking the drugs separately failed to put me to sleep.
I did not find out about Christian Science through the Sunday School or the church service, nor had I ever been inside a Reading Room or read any of the Christian Science periodicals. At the time I found Christian Science I was in a hospital because of poor health that resulted from drinking and smoking excessively; I couldn't stand or walk alone.
Several years ago, I was out deep-sea fishing with family and friends on a cabin cruiser. Our boat suddenly hit a huge wave.