Testimonies of Healing

"If you still believe that God is the Almighty, you must also know that He is almighty. " These words were written to me many years ago by a dear Christian Science practitioner, who lived several hundred miles from my town.

I was first introduced to Christian Science many years ago. About 1927, I hurt my back in a fall, apparently dislocating some vertebrae.

My first testimony appeared in The Christian Science Journal of April, 1943. I did not come into Christian Science for healing.

In the early postdepression years, I was living with a family whose income had been cut off by the economic collapse. Their combined efforts to overcome great hardships—their love, courage, and faith —so impressed me that I began attending a Church of Christ, Scientist, with them.

When I consider how Christian Science permeates my life, contributing joy, wisdom, right activity, depth, stability, and scope, in proportion as I study and practice it, I hasten at last to contribute my testimony in print. I have been blessed with a sense of adventure in my daily life.

Gratitude is an expression of thankfulness for benefits received. A recent experience I am grateful for is the healing of a painful and unsightly swelling in my face.

When I was small, I went to a Christian Science Sunday School for a while. Through the years, at different times, I thought about the teaching I had received, but I did not go to church.

I humbly give thanks to God for His provision of Christian Science, revealed to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and set forth in the textbook, Science and Health.

One Sunday afternoon a business acquaintance of my husband's came to visit. The discussion turned to religion.

As a medical doctor I first heard of Christian Science shortly before the outbreak of World War II, when I was called to a patient who later became my wife. She had some interest in Science.