Testimonies of Healing

Two years ago I had a healing of grief that may help someone who is overcome by this problem. I had an unusually strong attachment and feeling of responsibility for my mother.

My wife and I met in the Christian Science Sunday School when I was eleven years old and she was nine. She had just arrived in the United States and could not speak a word of English.

Mrs. Eddy states in Retrospection and Introspection ( p.

The blessings which have come to me and my family through the study of Christian Science are so many that I must enumerate some, lest I be guilty of the ingratitude of the nine lepers who were healed by Jesus but failed to acknowledge their healings. One summer day I played twenty-nine strenuous games of tennis, jumped on a trampoline for the first time, and felt no ill effects whatever.

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.