Testimonies of Healing

It is with sincere gratitude and thanks to God that I write this testimony of healing. For seventeen years Christian Science has met my every need.

In the hope that others will be encouraged by this testimony never to lose their trust in God and the truths of Christian Science, I write these lines. At the beginning of the thirties I began to suffer periods of depression.

This happy news is told us by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 206) : "In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,—Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply.

Humbly and gratefully I acknowledge the healing efficacy of Christian Science as revealed in all Mrs. Eddy's writings.

One Thursday evening while playing baseball, I was struck sharply by a ground ball. One of my teammates, who is an assistant trainer for a local school, suggested that I go to a hospital because my nose had been broken.

I was familiar with the teachings of Christian Science intellectually but had limited knowledge of their use. After submitting to surgery, I found, upon being discharged from the hospital, that reliance upon sleeping pills and tranquilizers had been established and seemed very difficult to handle.

To have been a student of Christian Science all my life is something for which I shall never cease to be grateful. I do not remember being ill often when I was a child, but on the few occasions when the need arose, illness was quickly overcome with the loving help of my mother and a dear friend who was a devoted practitioner of Christian Science.

Christian Science was introduced to me through The Christian Science Journal. I had just missed a train and, disappointed, walked back into the station, hoping to buy something to read.

I was busily working in the garden one day cutting deadwood from some dogwood bushes, when a twig caught my eye, badly scratching the eyeball. I endeavored to keep on with the job, declaring that accidents have no place in God's kingdom.

On page 390 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes: "It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony.