Testimonies of Healing

The deep study of Christian Science during the past five years has brought physical healings as well as freedom from timidity and self-depreciation. My election as a Reader in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, has proved to me beyond doubt that the office carries with it the ability to perform the required duties.

At one time I was suffering from pain in my heart and stiffness in my limbs. I wasn't able to get dressed without help; I had to be assisted out of bed.

Not long after I began serious study of Christian Science, I took a job that gave me excellent opportunities to see and to demonstrate the power of God, Principle. As a meeting planner, my assignment was to design, site, promote, and help execute a new national workshop series on photography—all within nine months.

When I was eight years old, I fell from a tree and hit my head on a curb. Concerned neighbors called a doctor who lived in the area.

I was enrolled in the Christian Science Sunday School at a very early age, and I loved attending regularly whenever I lived close enough to a Christian Science church. This foundational teaching and my own study of Science have brought harmony and healing into my life on many occasions.

Although I had enjoyed attending the Christian Science Sunday School and had some lovely healings, I drifted from Science after my marriage. When our third child was born and passed on after only a week, I was deeply depressed and came close to a nervous breakdown.

At one time a growth appeared on the side of my head. In my treatment I argued the unreality of this condition.

A few years ago I developed a very uncomfortable throat infection. I was unable to swallow any solid food and could take liquid only in small spoonfuls.

I myself did little praying until after the responsibilities of marriage and children came into my life—although I am grateful for having attended the Christian Science Sunday School until I was twenty, and for having parents who helped me through prayer when difficulties arose. From early childhood my children were taught to pray for themselves.

I have been a student of Christian Science for thirty years. During the Second World War, through the prayer of a Christian Science practitioner, I was afforded the most wonderful protection on numerous occasions.