Testimonies of Healing
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.
I was raised in Christian Science and had from my parents the best example of how to apply this wonderful religion in any and every situation. Financial problems were overcome in a remarkable way when the false concept of poverty or lack was replaced by the truth that being is complete, needing nothing, as Psalm 23 says: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy" ( Ps. 107:2 ).
I was first introduced to Christian Science nearly half a century ago by my wife, who was brought up in this religion, but it was thirty years before I began to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly and to attend services in a branch church regularly. During World War II, I realized that I had had some sort of protection beyond the ordinary, but did not understand how it came about.
My first testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel in April, 1907. At that time I had been studying Christian Science about five years and had received healings for myself and children.
It is well over forty years since I first expressed my gratitude for Christian Science in our periodicals. As a teen-age girl I was in a car accident and suffered much from infection and broken bones.