Testimonies of Healing

More than eleven years ago I was seized with a condition in my feet and legs. There was swelling, and pain dogged me in everything I did.

Christian Science has been a wonderful help to me in raising a family and in establishing our home, activity, health, and supply on a firm, spiritual basis. Our two children, who are twelve and fifteen, have never received medication and have excellent health records.

When I first came to Christian Science, I was healed, through the prayerful work of a Christian Science practitioner, of thyroid trouble that had bothered me considerably for many years. The practitioner gave me some copies of The Herald of Christian Science to take home with me.

My parents took up the study of Christian Science while I was a very young child. We lived in a log cabin.

When Christian Science was first presented to me in 1915 by my fiancee, my thought was so completely dominated by orthodox religious and medical beliefs that I was not receptive. Fortunately, because of the regard I had for the girl I later married, I began to occasionally attend services in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, read some of the periodicals, and attend Christian Science lectures.

Because we have studied Christian Science for fifty-seven years, our blessings would fill a large volume. In the 1920's our first testimony appeared in The Herald of Christian Science (German Edition); the second, in the February, 1935, issue of the Journal.

A college friend introduced me to Christian Science by inviting me to attend a Sunday church service with him. The Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation especially impressed me in this service, which I found so different from the Protestant services with which I was familiar.

I am deeply grateful for all the blessings I have received from the study and application of Christian Science. I was raised as a Christian Scientist, and with the help of a mother and grandmother who were devoted students of the Bible and Mrs.

Since my last testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel in 1949, there have been many opportunities for me and my family to prove the ever-presence of the healing Christ as revealed to us in Christian Science. On one occasion our daughter, then a teen-ager, was healed in a very short time of a broken bone in her ankle with the very prompt, prayerful treatment of a Christian Science practitioner.

"He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions" ( Ps. 107:20 ).