Testimonies of Healing

Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health ( p.

Christian Science has been the law of my life for twenty-seven years. I had been seeking the true understanding of the Bible for many years, going from one church to another but not quite finding what I was looking for.

I was brought into Christian Science as a young child when I was in need of healing for a serious eye condition. Kindly neighbors, observing my parents' discouragement, introduced them to Christian Science.

"Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it" ( Ps. 119:140 ).

Soon after I was married, I went to live in New York. During that time, a quiet and industrious maid whom we had brought over from Japan began to have sleepless nights, which continued for more than a month, and she would look blank and utter strange words.

To have grown up in a home where only love and patient understanding were expressed, to have attended a Christian Science Sunday School from the age of three to twenty, and to have been taught the value of doing one's own prayerful metaphysical work makes me most grateful. I am a third-generation Christian Scientist in our family.

In 1954, my testimony appeared in the  Christian Science Sentinel  regarding the healing of a mental or nervous breakdown. The healing occurred a number of years before the testimony was published, and I stated at that time that the healing was permanent.

My family and I were introduced to Christian Science through a healing I had when I was about seven years old. I had become so weak and tired that I did not want to go to school, had a very high temperature, and did not want to eat or talk.

I became a member of The Mother Church many years ago because I felt the urge to become identified with the Cause in which I deeply believe. Mistakenly, I felt that because there were many human problems I had not yet solved, I was not qualified for membership in a branch church.

I became interested in Christian Science through my mother. She was a member of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, which I attended with her.