Testimonies of Healing

My first testimony was published in the Christian Science Sentinel of May 25, 1968. Again I wish to express my gratitude to God for the healing Christ and for Christ Jesus' comforting assurance in Luke ( 12:32 ), "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

My first printed testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel of December 9, 1967. In it I told of a healing of appendicitis accomplished a few years earlier with the treatment of a Christian Science practitioner.

At the time I became acquainted with Christian Science I was emotionally "at sea. " I believed in God and His goodness, but also thought sin, sickness, and death were inescapable facts of life.

Christian Science found me as a young housewife. Through friends I had learned of this teaching and began to read Science and Health by Mrs.

It is my earnest hope that this testimony, in addition to expressing gratitude for all the good that has come to me through Christian Science, will lend encouragement to some of those who may prematurely have withdrawn from the educational system. As one of five children of a widowed mother left without income, I dropped out of high school in the first semester of my sophomore year and went to work.

Several years ago I was in the mountains for vacation. I was playing with my cousin, when I thought that it would be faster to go through the window of the house to get down into the garden.

Recently, while I was on a trip, a printed travel guide reminded me of my obligation toward the world. I have to testify that in the last twenty-five years Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs.

The seed of healing by Christian Science was first sown in my thought when I was twelve. My family lived near a large boardinghouse where government employees resided, including a doctor, a nurse, and a couple who had a little boy about eight years old.

For several years I suffered with very severe headaches which would leave me incapacitated for two or three days at a time. Periodically I asked for help through prayer from a Christian Science practitioner, but the headaches continued to plague me and increased in their frequency.

The greatest thing that I have found in Christian Science is the beginning of an understanding of God as our creator. Through God's revelation to Mary Baker Eddy, and her profound love in sharing it with the world in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures , we find the way to claim the loving care of our Father-Mother God.