Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.