Testimonies of Healing
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.
I am prompted to write in gratitude for the efficacy of Mrs. Eddy's discovery given so lovingly to the world by her devotion and concern for mankind, and for the operation of Christian Science in my own life.
Years ago my mother was healed of a chronic stomach condition. Like the woman's in the Bible, her condition was "nothing bettered, but rather grew worse" ( Mark 5:26 ).
Physical problems have never caused me to be discouraged or dismayed. I have recognized them as challenges forcing me to go higher and pursue the study of Christian Science in greater depth when I might have been content with things as they were.
A statement from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy reads ( p.
My gratitude for Christian Science is boundless. Through the study of the Bible, together with Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs.