Testimonies of Healing

At one time, my twenty-year-old son traveled to India and Pakistan on a comprehensive sightseeing tour. He regularly wrote cheerful letters that gave me no cause for concern.

As a lifelong Christian Scientist I am most grateful for the many healings I have received through complete reliance on God as my only physician. A little over a year ago I was quickly healed of what appeared to be a broken bone.

Ever since I can remember, my eyes were extremely sensitive to bright sunlight. Sunglasses were of little help, and I just plain avoided such things as being on a lake or driving a car on bright days.

My first child was only a week old when I noticed that her neck was stiff and her head was drawn to one side. I began to consciously try to understand more of the spiritual identity of the child as God's perfect idea—the child of our only Father-Mother God.

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.