Testimonies of Healing
It is more than fifty years since I became interested in Christian Science. My mother had a heart condition which the medical profession could not cure.
In 1945, while completing my Army service overseas, I began to suspect that my (then) wife had fallen in love with another man. At this time a growth appeared on my left leg, and similar growths quickly appeared on the fingers of both hands.
Our family has had many remarkable demonstrations of Truth. The first big healing was my mother's healing when the diagnosis of five doctors was that she could not live more than two months.
It is with a heart filled with gratitude and humility that I relate an experience which, although seeming at first glance of slight consequence, includes great possibilities for the destruction of more serious errors of character. On several occasions, through prayer in Christian Science, I had previously been able to be rid of small disfiguring growths of flesh.
Before I was a student of Christian Science, I became very ill with thyroid trouble. While I was having rest treatment in a hospital before an operation could be performed, a woman came to visit me one day, at the request of my husband.
My introduction to Christian Science came in 1942 through my marriage to a student of Christian Science, who had already experienced many beautiful healings through its application. I began to read and study Science and Health by Mrs.
I am the wife who had the healing about which my husband has written, and I confirm the details and the permanency of the healing change. (Mrs.
The following testimony is related for those who wish to be free from bodily problems of weight and shape. My wife had been gaining weight and finally was unable to ascend or descend stairs in a normal manner.
When I started attending the Christian Science Sunday School at about the age of ten, I had been subject to frequent spells of sickness, was taking medicine, and was doing poorly in school, although I liked it and was eager to learn. Very shortly after the study of Christian Science was taken up by my family, this picture changed.
Some years ago a mental condition developed in me to the extent that I believed I was to be killed by associates in the office where I worked. New employment I had taken about a year earlier had proved to be unsatisfactory in a material way.