Testimonies of Healing
It appears humanly impossible to adequately express my gratitude for the many blessings that have come to me through a lifetime of Christian Science. I thank God, and our beloved Leader, Mrs.
Christian Science has truly blessed me and improved my life. In the few years I have been a student, I have experienced undeniable proofs that Christian Science is a wonderful, healing, and exact Science.
As a child I was always under the care of doctors and also stayed for a time in a sanatorium, where I was treated for tuberculosis. In 1924, while my mother was attending a clinic on my behalf, someone introduced her to Christian Science.
On page 570 in Science and Health , Mrs. Eddy writes: "The march of mind and of honest investigation will bring the hour when the people will chain, with fetters of some sort, the growing occultism of this period.
Just before the First World War I heard the words "Christian Science. " I became acquainted with a Christian Science practitioner, who told me about Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and that many people had been healed just by reading it.
During the mid-1950's, I was still in the Army Reserve. In a required physical examination the physician informed me of a growth in the nasal passages, remarking that it was a matter of minor surgery to have it removed.
This testimony concerns the immediacy and power of prayer. One Sunday morning when I was busily distributing hymnals in advance of the Christian Science service in a women's prison, where I served as Second Reader, I was startled by a loud, angry exchange of words at the chapel entrance, where several prisoners and some prison officers were gathered.
"In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength" ( Isa. 30:15 ).
I first heard of Christian Science nearly fifty years ago when I was a very ill and worried woman. I had been told that I would never be well unless I underwent an operation, and the necessary arrangements had been made for me to enter hospital.
For several years I often entertained the notion that I should never have been a mother. I was frequently impatient and irritated with my two children and was confused and unsure of myself as to how to discipline.