Testimonies of Healing

Even though satisfied with my lot in 1971, I saw ahead only old age and no way to combat it. The future looked bleak.

A Christian Science lecture really showed me that Christ Jesus' method of healing is effective today. The lecturer gave three ingredients of healing: discipline, love, and spirituality.

Music is such an important part of my life that I have often felt sad and incomplete when I am unable to practice or at least hear music for a few days. I became aware of this while I was having class instruction in Christian Science.

While a young woman, my grandmother had blood poisoning in her arm. A friend gave her Science and Health by Mrs.

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.