Testimonies of Healing

This testimony is given as an expression of deep gratitude for Mrs. Eddy for her wonderful foresight of humanity's needs in establishing both the Christian Science Sunday School and the Christian Science Reading Room as an integral part of The Church of Christ, Scientist.

This testimony is to give sincere and earnest thanks for a perfect healing of defective eyesight and for laying off glasses, which I used for some twenty years. On two occasions I asked for help on this problem from faithful, consecrated Christian Science practitioners.

In the early nineteen fifties I was on the point of returning home to England after a visit to my mother in Sweden, when I became suddenly ill with rheumatoid arthritis. As my mother was a practitioner listed in the Journal and I myself an interested student of Christian Science, we.

I was enrolled in the Christian Science Sunday School at the age of seven, and I remember my early years as happily free from illness and medical care. When on rare occasions a few childhood ailments did appear, they were quickly healed through Christian Science.

I wish to express gratitude for Christ Jesus, for Christian Science, and for our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who gave us this wonderful truth.

In the Bible we read ( I Pet. 4: 12, 13 ): "Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

More than a half century ago I began the study and application of Christian Science, and over the years I have gratefully experienced many instances of healing through scientific metaphysical prayer. Early in my study of Christian Science I was instantaneously healed of a chronic condition of sties around my eyes, a condition which had harassed me throughout a period of two years.

I was led to Christian Science through a dear friend. One day while she was talking of the value of this religion with such a beautiful glow of joy, I felt there must be something about it worth investigating.

I was reared in a Christian Science home. Because of my parents' steadfast reliance on God to meet our every need we experienced many healings.

Mrs. Eddy tells us that "Christian Science is always the most skilful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing which will be last acknowledged" ( Science and Health , p.