Testimonies of Healing

From childhood there has been an impulse in my consciousness urging me to gain a fuller understanding of God— a spiritual questing with expectancy of good. Our faithful Leader, Mrs.

In 1949 I was in a state of despondency after all material aids and the help of physicians had failed to heal me of a nervous breakdown and other ailments. One afternoon the words "Christian Science" kept coming to me.

After quoting Christ Jesus' statement, "The kingdom of God is within you," Mary Baker Eddy writes ( Pulpit and Press , p. 3 ): "Know, then, that you possess sovereign power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dispossess you of this heritage and trespass on Love.

Christian Science is a way of life influencing every part of our existence. The more we apply the truths learned in Science, and the more we realize we are whole, perfect, and spiritual, not material, the quicker error surfaces to be destroyed.

Seven years ago I left a well-known medical clinic, after seeking help, to return home to die. My sister, who accompanied me, was told that nothing could be done for me, that I could not live six months.

When I became acquainted with this Science I was taking the preparatory course for a college of medicine. I began attending the meetings of a group of Christian Scientists at the university.

My progress in overcoming the belief that life is in matter is the result of a long process of spiritual growth. It began twenty-eight years ago when I first asked what the purpose of life is.

Once when I was on a bus I struck my head on a sunken luggage rack, above. The sound drew the concern of fellow passengers.

Mrs. Eddy has given us a remarkably complete answer to the question "What is God?" in Science and Health ( p.

From early manhood I knew of Christian Science. Mother and I lived in the shadow of one of its branch churches.