Testimonies of Healing
My first testimony was published in the Journal in May 1953. Since that time I have steadfastly desired to understand and prove more fully that we may rely completely on Christian Science to heal sickness and sin and to erase fear from our lives.
When Christian Science was introduced to me as a teen-ager, it was the answer to prayer, for I felt I needed something to stabilize my life. My father was an alcoholic.
Toward the end of the last century my grandmother, who had been a cripple until that time, was healed through Christian Science treatment. I was fortunate to be brought up in a Christian Science home.
About fifty years ago a man I know was called to his mother, who was seriously ill in a distant city. She had been given up by the medical profession and was apparently dying.
Mary Baker Eddy has written, "Of two things fate cannot rob us; namely, of choosing the best, and of helping others thus to choose" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 165 ).
"The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood" ( Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p.
At a time when most people prepare to withdraw from the business world, I passed the federal civil service examinations and took a position with the government. I felt that passing the examination and obtaining the position in the city in which I wished to live resulted from the application of my understanding of Christian Science.
Question: What do I owe to Christian Science? Answer: Immeasurable dedication to this absolutely priceless and joy-filled way of thought, but more importantly, a joy-filled way of doing and living. Question: When and how did this debt initiate? Answer: At the age of five when my mother enrolled me in a Christian Science Sunday School? No.
In her poem Christ and Christmas Mrs. Eddy writes (p.
I have had the great joy of visiting Boston annually for some years now, and in 1975 saw the completed portico of The Mother Church. To me it represents the completion of a wide vision and portrays the answer to steadfast prayers.