Testimonies of Healing
Christian Science healing is available to all. A sincere desire to be a good Christian Scientist enabled me to lay aside reading glasses I had worn for several years.
"O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him" ( Ps. 34:8 ).
My wife and I are both students of Christian Science. For well over thirty-five years Science has answered our every need.
In moments of thoughtful retrospection I feel a deep sense of love and humility toward both my paternal grandmother and my parents, who persisted in the study of Christian Science. It has been the still small voice of the Christ, Truth, signaling the direction of every important turning point of my life.
My family, in which both grandfathers were Protestant preachers, was sincerely Christian, and I went to church and Sunday School willingly. Like many other young persons beginning to think for themselves, I soon began to look for a religion more satisfying to my reason.
[Original in German] In one of her poems Mary Baker Eddy writes from her own experience ( Poems, p. 4 ): Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain.
In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy has written ( p.
Recently an article appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel in connection with the Christian Science Church Center building program entitled, "The Reflecting Pool. " This brought to thought an experience in our family at the time of the building of the Publishing House, on which I have often reflected.
Just before entering college I found that I had a distressing physical problem, and I turned to Christian Science for healing. During college the condition became more aggravated, and after I graduated I moved from my hometown to Washington, District of Columbia, in order to work more closely with a Christian Science practitioner who was helping me.
I have never known any religion but Christian Science and my early home training has made it natural in time of need to turn to God first and trust in Him. A few years ago I took a tumble and landed on my arm.