Testimonies of Healing

One morning, while we were on holiday in the Austrian Tyrol, I decided to go for a walk. After promising my wife I would return for lunch, I followed a well-marked mountain trail alongside a rushing stream.

It was a blessed day when our family was introduced to Christian Science. At the time, we had two small children and were frequently in doctors' offices with our various problems.

Recently I was in a foreign country with a tour group. After a week or so I became ill with an intestinal disturbance.

As a youth, I was bedridden on and off over a period of nine years with a violent type of asthma and a nervous disorder. All medical methods of healing had failed—even a visit abroad to German specialists.

Toward the latter part of April 1978, I was laboring under an extremely heavy work schedule. Not only did I have a lot to accomplish in a short period, but it was the first time I had attempted some of the tasks, and I was anxiously feeling my way.

My family has always been religious. When I was growing up, grace was said before meals, and a chapter was read from the Bible each morning after breakfast.

I learned about Christian Science in 1932. At that time I was ill with a number of disorders.

Many years ago, when I had been studying Christian Science just a short time and my husband did not share my interest, I found myself facing these questions: Should I pursue this study and church attendance on my own? Or should I continue social activities that seemed to conflict with both church attendance and my standard of thinking? The answer came, as if spoken, when I was en route to a Wednesday testimony meeting at a branch Church of Christ, Scientist ( Isa. 30:21 ): "This is the way, walk ye in it.

After returning from a hiking trip in the High Sierra, I became extremely ill with symptoms of food poisoning. I recognized at once that this was a mistaken belief about my true identity, because actually God is the only creator and He causes only good.

At one time I suffered sharp pains on the right side of my abdomen. When I called a Christian Science practitioner to help me through prayer, I was asked to ponder this statement of Mrs.