Testimonies of Healing
In 1951, before I was living in the free world, I heard for the first time of Christian Science. I was led to a very kind Christian Scientist, who guided my first steps in the truth.
Over the past twenty years I have had many evidences of God's loving care, all proving the truth of Christian Science. In Miscellaneous Writings Mrs.
Although I attended a Christian Science Sunday School from a very early age, by my late teens I had not really made this teaching my own. My understanding of God's allness and love seemed to have been stunted by material attractions, although I felt it was good to have something like Christian Science "on the shelf" if ever it were needed.
About twelve years ago, I suddenly became aware of a severe infection in both my ears. At first the condition left me almost deaf.
Before learning of Christian Science, I did not read the Bible, because I didn't understand it. It became comprehensible to me through Mrs.
A number of years ago when my husband passed on suddenly, leaving me with three young sons, the prayerful support of a Christian Science practitioner lifted me above grief and loss. A wonderful feeling of the "husbanding" qualities of divine Love brought into my life friends, relatives, and others who were able to help guide me in making many necessary decisions, and whose love and interest greatly blessed the boys and me.
When the divinely scientific teaching of Christian Science came into my life, it explained "a new heaven and a new earth," as envisioned by St. John ( Rev.
While I was serving in the Christian Science Reading Room recently, I came across my mother's testimony, published in the Sentinel , relating my childhood healing of mastoiditis and scarlet fever. Now, many years later, I am happy to testify to the permanency of those healings, with no ill effects of any kind.
From my teen years I had an acute reaction to poison oak, even without actually coming into contact with the plant. At first I broke out repeatedly during the autumn.
Class instruction in Christian Science strengthened my desire to heal ills by prayer alone. I had been raised in Science.