Testimonies of Healing
Christian Science has brought healing to our family for nearly half a century. My mother was healed instantaneously of two severe difficulties when she visited a practitioner.
A few years after my wife and I were married, we bought an old remodeled farmhouse. The weeds, mostly goldenrod and ragweed, grew right up to the front door.
In a 1955 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel I told in a testimony how I was protected on the Korean front, and my gratitude for all the bountiful beauty Christian Science had brought into my life. In the intervening years I have had many more proofs of the healing and protecting efficacy of Christian Science.
Thanksgiving! This national holiday is of special significance in our family. It was the day that Christian Science found us.
Active service in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, for many years has opened up the Bible to me, brought a greater appreciation for the lives of the prophets, and a desire to be a better follower of Christ Jesus; to love as he loved and to heal the sick and sinning as he commanded us to do. Important, too, has been the discipline of learning to work shoulder to shoulder with church members and to let the divine will rule my motives and deeds.
Two years ago I took a group of students into an overseas country to pursue their study of the language of that country. As the trip was being planned, innumerable difficulties presented themselves.
Last spring while I was reading the weekly Bible Lesson on the subject "Love" from the Christian Science Quarterly , I was impelled by an inner voice that asserted, "Stop reading! Do protective work for your husband!" Following that directive came another: "Don't bother to stop! What you're already doing is sufficient. " Recognizing the latter as the devil, cunningly disguised in believable words and tone, to tempt me to disregard what I felt was true leading, I obeyed the first voice and remained quiet for a few minutes in peaceful communion with the all-knowing Mind.
Mrs. Eddy tells us ( Science and Health , p.
Thirty-eight years ago I was healed of a nervous breakdown. The illness had seemed to be a culmination of fear, self-will, self-condemnation, and despair.
One outstanding example in our family showing that the Comforter, promised by Christ Jesus, is here in divine Science occurred when our daughter was three years old. She had complained of something hurting in her mouth.