Testimonies of Healing

A few years ago I was a very sad and lonely young woman. The world was a frightening, uncaring place to live.

Several years ago, on my return from a long trip around the world, it was apparent that I was very ill and in need of nursing care. I was taken to a nursing home for Christian Scientists near New York City.

At one time I suddenly found that my mouth would open only slightly and my face and neck were swollen and painful. I was afraid.

Shortly after I graduated from college, Christian Science class instruction opened my thought more fully to the infinite resources of Spirit available to all mankind. The yearly association meetings since then have encouraged me to persist in discovering, understanding, and using these divine resources.

I am grateful to have overcome a miserable condition of chronic shyness. Extreme timidity continued from childhood into manhood.

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.