Testimonies of Healing
I would like to express my gratitude for the healing many years ago of severe arthritis, which came through reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I had been suffering from this problem for ten years, had been in and out of hospitals, where doctors had given me no hope of ever being able to walk without sticks again.
Christian Science, for me, is the most beautiful thing in the world, because it has fulfilled my longing to experience something heavenly. How did I come to this wonderful, practical religion? It was through God's goodness and guidance.
The Journal of November 1956 included a testimony expressing my gratitude for a healing in Christian Science. This took place on my first visit to a practitioner after about four years of invalidism.
For many years I have been a student of Christian Science and have enjoyed and have been helped by reading the testimonies in the periodicals. I became interested in Christian Science on witnessing the healing of deafness in a close friend of the family.
What a blessed privilege it is to be a student of Christian Science! Our family has had many healings in Science, and my own healings have been many and varied. When I was six years old, I had my first healing.
Many years ago my mother handed me a book, with these words, "Here, this is something that will help you. " The book was Science and Health by Mrs.
I did not have the opportunity to attend a Christian Science Sunday School much after I reached the age of twelve. As I grew up I gradually drifted away from Christian Science.
One of my first recognizable healings as a relatively new student in Christian Science was the glorious freedom from migraine headaches. And the healing was instantaneous.
In my early twenties I was healed in Christian Science of two so-called incurable diseases, including stomach trouble I had had from childhood. My parents spared no expense in securing the best medical treatment for me, but I steadily grew worse.
Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health ( p.