Testimonies of Healing

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.

My eldest sister gave me Christian Science when I was a teen-ager. I had three wonderful years as a pupil in The Mother Church Sunday School and joined The Mother Church at the end of that time.

[Original in Spanish] The desire to know more of God led me to take the first steps to have Christian Science class, at a time when human circumstances were telling me it was an impossible project to accomplish. I didn't have a fixed income to enable me to finance the journey and other expenses.

I am grateful for the loved Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, and for her writings, which are a continual source of inspiration. I am also grateful to have attended a Christian Science Sunday School, for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, and for class instruction.

I received a phone call early one evening. A neighbor identified herself and said that my son had been hit by a car and he was being removed from the scene by ambulance to the hospital.

My husband and I adopted our first two children when they were infants. In the case of our first child we were told that because of our religion the waiting period would be much longer.

After World War II, when there was hardly anything left to eat, I read an article from a Christian Science periodical on the subject of safety. It told how a woman called out, when faced with destructive forces, that God would have to be destroyed first.