Testimonies of Healing
My first introduction to Christian Science was through my marriage. When my husband was fifteen years old, he witnessed his mother's instantaneous healing of a prolonged illness.
The greatest privilege of my life has been that of being reared in Christian Science. My parents were led to Christian Science when my mother as a young woman was given only months to live by three eminent physicians in the city in which we lived.
When I was quite young, I had a governess who was a Christian Scientist, and she spoke to my mother one day about the healing effects of Christian Science. At that time the family was well, happy, and financially secure.
As a young teen-ager I had many misgivings regarding religion. My father, widely read on the subject, told me the only religion he knew which would answer my questions satisfactorily was Christian Science.
The opening words in the Preface to the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, found fulfillment in my experience in the truest sense: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.
One Saturday night about three years ago, while working in the kitchen, I fell. I was unable to move for a while, and I was alone in the house with no prospect that anyone would look for me before Monday.
It was at a period of great desolation, about 1900, that my mother was given the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.
Since my testimony appeared in the Scandinavian Edition of The Herald of Christian Science of October, 1956, I have had many further blessings through Christian Science. I would like to relate some healings I have experienced.
I shall always be grateful to the dear aunt who introduced me to Christian Science at a very unhappy period of my life. My mother, whom I loved very much, had passed on suddenly at an early age, and I was overwhelmed with grief.
Too long have I delayed in writing of several, to me, outstanding healings I have had through an understanding of Christian Science. While in college, I had to face the severest test I had known, but I knew from my Sunday School and home training that the answer could be found in Christian Science.