Testimonies of Healing
Christian Science came to me during World War I. It comforted and sustained me when my father passed on and a month later when a brother was reported killed in action.
I shall always be grateful that I attended the Christian Science Sunday School as a child. However, when I was in my teens, I drifted away from Science.
When Christian Science was first introduced to me about forty-six years ago, I was walking in utter darkness, declaring that there is no God. It followed that if there is no God, there is no eternal life, and I seemed to be at the end of all things and did not want to live.
Perhaps my life will be an inspiration to others, for I have been a member of The Mother Church for seventy-five years, having joined in 1899. I am now ninety-seven years old.
In February, 1932, one of our neighbors brought Christian Science to my attention because of the continual health problems of our son. Colds, inflammation of the lungs and ears, lack of appetite, and repeated attacks of fever were the recurring symptoms.
About twenty years ago I publicly expressed my gratitude for Christian Science in the Journal, and it is time to reaffirm it. I came into Christian Science in 1904 through the healing of my mother of a physical difficulty for which she was already scheduled to have a surgical operation when Christian Science was presented to her.
I have had unmistakable proof over a period of many years that Christian Science, when understood and humbly, honestly, and consistently practiced, brings health, joy, guidance, and healing. My first healing was of a collapsed lung.
One Sunday as our family was preparing to drive to church in our camper bus, I was distracted momentarily and relaxed my foot on the brake. The next thing I knew, our little daughter let out a cry that the wheel had rolled over her foot.
Quoting Psalm 46:1, Mary Baker Eddy states ( Science and Health, p. 444 ), "Step by step will those who trust Him find that 'God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
I am happy to be able to add to the ever accumulating evidence of the healing power of God as taught in Christian Science. I was born and raised in a Christian Science family.