Testimonies of Healing

I was blessed with the privilege of attending a Christian Science Sunday School, where I learned that I could safely rely upon God for every need. While walking home from school one afternoon, when I was a freshman in college, I was bitten by a poisonous, deadly snake.

From childhood I always searched for God and tried to understand Him and what men call "miracles. " I read a great deal and tested everything I studied (naturism, homeopathy, occultism, various mind cures, etc.

I shall always be grateful that I attended a Christian Science Sunday School from the age of eight, that I joined a branch church before I was seventeen, and that I had class instruction at twenty. These experiences taught me to rely on God, who is ever present and all-powerful, and were invaluable in bringing up a son and daughter who now have families of their own.

Before I was married, I had the desire to possess a standard by which I could conduct my marriage. Although in my parental home love and firm ethical concepts prevailed and we had a faint notion of God, nothing in the way of formal religion was included in my upbringing.

After many years of spiritual growth and blessed experience that have come to me through the study of Christian Science I feel that I have reached a point where I must share my heartfelt gratitude with those who read our periodicals. Although my family were not Christian Scientists, my parents were friendly toward it and permitted me to attend Sunday School in a nearby Church of Christ, Scientist, for about a year and a half.

In the summer of 1924, I attended a fair in a city of western Canada, where I noticed a tent with the sign, "Christian Science Rest Tent. " My knowledge of Christian Science was very limited, but I had heard that its followers claimed that a knowledge of it would heal the sick.

During my first year in school, I was stricken with what the doctor diagnosed as Saint Vitus's dance. I was in a coma for six weeks.

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths" ( Prov.

I would like to share my testimony of the healing of tuberculosis. According to the doctor both lungs were infected, and he stated that surgery was the only thing that would give me relief and clear up the condition.

I am a second generation Christian Scientist. My mother came to this religion after being raised as a delicate child and suffering almost to the point of death as the result of a blood clot at the time of my brother's birth.