Testimonies of Healing

I came into Christian Science about six years ago through a most wonderful healing. One afternoon while searching through the religious book section in the public library for a good Christian book that would help me to know God, all of a sudden a most wonderful feeling of peace and assurance came over me, and I knew within myself that God had already answered my prayer.

I attended a Protestant Sunday School from early childhood and joined the church at the age of twelve. However, I did not feel that this step gave me any greater understanding of the Christian religion, which I greatly desired.

Mrs. Eddy begins the textbook, Science and Health, with the words ( p.

For several years I was a registered medical nurse and instructor at a university college of nursing. I had had five years of college and nurses training, and was planning to complete work necessary to earn my master's degree in nursing education when I married a student of Christian Science.

I am profoundly grateful for my introduction to Christian Science. When I think of the past, I appreciate the realization that even through severe testing times my Father-Mother God has always been right there with me.

When I was over twenty-eight years old, I heard of Christian Science for the first time. I couldn't read or write, as I had gone to school for only a few months.

At the age of six years I received my first healing in Christian Science. This took place on a passenger train en route to Portland, Oregon, from Houston, Texas, in 1919.

This testimony to the practicality and availability of Christian Science is long overdue, because I have been blessed and helped in every detail of my life ever since I first started to attend a Christian Science Sunday School at the age of three, some forty years ago. Having seen marital unhappiness in my family when a child and in my early teens, I was determined I would never give myself the problem of marriage.

Each year I become more grateful for the understanding of God that the study of Christian Science gives. Thought elevated in gratitude to God brings the peace and joy so needed in daily living.

Some time ago this verse from the Bible appeared in the Lesson-Sermon for that week ( Ps. 40:2 ): "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.