Testimonies of Healing

When I was a small girl, my family moved a lot, and I went to a different school every year. When I reached high school age, I became very timid and self-conscious about going to a new school and making new friends.

We live on a grain farm in a section of Alberta that has been noted for the severity of its hailstorms. I have always prayed for our protection.

The first introduction to Christian Science in our family occurred on a memorable morning when my mother, who had been ill for several weeks, was in a coma. There had been four doctors in our home in consultation, and their decision was, "There is no hope for the recovery of your mother.

My parents began studying this Science when I was a small child, but not until I left home to go to college did I have any real challenge to prove what I had been learning in the Christian Science Sunday School. During my sophomore year an influenza epidemic broke out in college, and I became seriously ill with the condition.

"Error, urged to its final limits, is self-destroyed," Mrs. Eddy writes ( Science and Health, p.

Christian Science came into our lives many years ago shortly after my husband and I emigrated from our native Germany to the United States. A neighbor one day asked me where our small son attended Sunday School.

I have every reason to give thanks for the blessings of membership in the Church of Christ, Scientist. Through Christian Science I have experienced much good in my life and received many proofs of its healing power.

[Original in French] As a young woman my health had always been fragile. I had had no religious instruction but I did have a natural belief in divine aid and was of an obedient disposition.

I shall never cease being grateful for my introduction to Christian Science. This took place when I was a girl of twelve living in a small midwestern town.

I cannot imagine my life without Christian Science. An increasing understanding and ability to apply the teachings of this religion have resulted in many physical healings for me, including those of burns, colds, and bursitis.