Testimonies of Healing
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.
"God Loves You" was the subject of a radio program on Christian Science, broadcast over Radio Luxembourg, to which I listened early one morning. It gave me the incentive to finally express in a testimony for the Christian Science periodicals my gratitude for the innumerable proofs I have known of God's love.
I thank our loving Father-Mother God for the priceless gift of Christian Science. It was introduced to my family, when I was very young, by a close family friend.
In the Bible we read, "Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me" ( Ps. 50:15 ).
The son of kind, religious, and charitable parents, I was at an early age attending a Church of England Sunday School every Sunday, both in the morning and the afternoon. On reaching the age of eight years, I became a church choirboy.
When I was twelve years old, I began to think about God and mankind. What led to this was an illness of my mother.
For more than half a century I have experienced the benefits of Christian Science, individually and for my family. Before this healing and regenerating truth came into our lives, I had attended a service in a Church of Christ, Scientist, only once, as a child, and had never known about Science and Health by Mrs.