Testimonies of Healing
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.
When I was a young child, I was run over by a horse-drawn wagon carrying a load of bricks. A rear wheel went over the lower part of my back.
It is hardly possible here to tell of the countless healings through Christian Science I have had in almost four decades. But certainly the fact is worth mentioning that during the fourteen years I lived with my family in a tropical country we were stricken with none of the diseases considered common in that country, and we all enjoyed the best of health.
"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise" ( Jer. 17:14 ).
In August, 1939, I arrived in New York from what was then the Free City of Danzig in the Polish Corridor. Instead of being grateful for my freedom in having left Europe just before the start of World War II, I was saddened at leaving two loved ones behind.
My first healing in Christian Science was as a child eight years old. I had yellow jaundice and was under the care of a doctor, but I was not getting well.