Testimonies of Healing
I am one of the many who can bear witness to the healing power of Christian Science as a result of studying Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. During the Second World War, shortly before leaving for a new and temporary home far from my home state, I was loaned a copy of Science and Health.
I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings received for over thirty-five years in Christian Science. This testimony covers a period of thirty-two years which I completed in the transportation field as a city transit driver.
[Original in French] I originally became acquainted with Christian Science in 1948 when my wife's aunt invited us to a lecture. Even though I did not know English, I went with my wife.
Having been raised in a Christian Science home and attended a Christian Science Sunday School, I have experienced the blessings and joys of this wonderful way of life. I am very grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church since I was a young girl, and for being divinely led to have class instruction.
The strong desire to express my gratitude for Christian Science by becoming a member of The Mother Church and a branch church, enabled me to free myself from the habits of cigarette smoking and social drinking. In the healing of smoking, a very helpful citation reads in part ( II Cor.
Reading Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy from cover to cover in ten days was my introduction to Christian Science literature.
Although I was reared in an orthodox family and attended Hebrew school, I could not understand the teaching of Judaism. Therefore, I did not continue in its study.
After an accident last year, when I seemed unable to study, my thought turned toward the healings I had previously experienced in Christian Science. I was reminded of how, when Christ Jesus healed ten lepers, only one turned back to give glory to God, and I realized I am indeed richly blessed.
My mother told me about Christian Science shortly after I married. I had been ill for months before the birth of my first child.
Twenty-seven years ago a dear relative sent me Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Until then I did not know anything about Christian Science.