Testimonies of Healing

My parents were both students of Christian Science, so I was enrolled in the Christian Science Sunday School from a very early age and attended up to the age of twenty. During those years I had much to be grateful for, but it was only when I had a family of my own that I really put the wonderful truths I had learned to the test.

Over thirty-five years have gone by since my first testimony appeared in The Christian Science Journal. During these intervening years I have had ample opportunity to prove again and again that Christian Science helps us overcome our difficulties regardless of their name or nature.

Twenty-five years ago I was virtually forced into the study and acceptance of Christian Science. At the time, I was filled with despair and an overwhelming fear of death.

"He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways" ( Ps. 91:11 ).

At the beginning of the school year our little girl began to break out in a rash all over her body. A medical nurse who had come to the house to care for a member of the family who is not a Christian Scientist saw our daughter and stated that she had symptoms of chicken pox and should be taken to the doctor as quickly as possible.

How grateful I am for God's great love, and for Christian Science, which is revealing this love to me and showing me its practical application in human living! Some years ago, when my husband and I were living in a Far Eastern country, I became very ill and lost not only the ability to walk but also the use of my hands to feed myself properly. My hair came out until the scalp was almost bare.

The teachings of Christian Science first came to my attention when through the application of this Science my mother was healed of a difficulty she had been suffering from for many years. The permanency of her healing was proved because, to the time of her passing thirty-three years later, she remained free of the illness.

In April, 1972, I attended a testimony meeting in a Church of Christ, Scientist, for the first time. A few days before, I had bought the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs.

When a friend spoke to me of Christian Science for the first time, I was confined to bed following a major abdominal operation and was in almost continuous pain. I had never heard of this religion.

Although I had been raised in Christian Science, was a member of The Mother Church, and had been a branch church member, after my marriage I started to drift away from Christian Science. I resigned from the branch church and eventually got completely away from the practice and study of Science.