Testimonies of Healing
I would like to share some of the ways in which Christian Science has enriched my life with its intelligent and practical explanation of the Bible and strict adherence to the teachings of Christ Jesus. Before learning of Christian Science I seemed to have no real direction or purpose in life.
The author of Science and Health , Mrs. Eddy, has written (Poems, p.
I wish to express my appreciation of all that Christian Science has done for my family and me. Even though I was brought up in a home of Christian Scientists and regularly attended the Christian Science Sunday School, I did not fully cherish this wonderful gift that Mary Baker Eddy has given to mankind until I was on active duty in the United States Air Force.
I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings I have received since I began to study Christian Science thirty-one years ago. The religious concepts of the faith in which I was brought up did not satisfy me, and at the age of sixteen I left my former church.
As a child I regularly attended the Sunday Schools of two different Protestant denominations at different periods, and when about twelve years old, I was confirmed in one of them. I did not learn anything that I can recall about God or prayer.
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.