Testimonies of Healing

When I was a young child, I was enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School. There I began to learn something of God and His creation, including man, and what I learned has proved invaluable as a practical and effective way to solve any problem.

With a heart full of gratitude for Christian Science and our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who made this wonderful divine law available to us, I wish to submit this testimony. It was the opinion of several physicians that because of pernicious anemia my mother had probably only a few days to live.

As the oldest of six children raised in a Christian Science home by a devoted mother who guided our thoughts and footsteps in the truth and emphasized the importance of turning to God for a solution to all our problems, I experienced and witnessed many remarkable healings. The healing of double pneumonia occurred while I was a young child.

Shortly after my mother became interested in Christian Science some fifty years ago, she enrolled me in the Sunday School. I also saw how Christian Science was loved and lived in the home of dear friends, which contributed much to the molding of my character.

That Christian Science is indeed the truth has been proved in my experience. It is a great privilege to have been in the loving embrace of a Christian Science Sunday School since the age of two and a half, to have been brought up to know and love this healing religion and thereby see how it is the logical fulfillment of Jesus' promise, "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth" ( John 14:16, 17 ).

A yearning desire to know God led me to Christian Science. While I was in my early teens, the pupils in my class in an orthodox Sunday School were invited to meet with the minister to discuss church membership.

Over twenty five years ago I casually accepted an invitation, extended to several people by a Christian Science practitioner, to attend a Wednesday evening testimony meeting in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. The readings from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mrs.

Better moral thinking, better relationships, and better activity result from the spiritual understanding gained through a Christian Science healing. How grateful I am for each consecrated Christian Science practitioner and worker! Because of constant pain which developed in one shoulder, I had very limited use of one arm.

When I was in a very depressed state of mind, not knowing why I was here, Christian Science was presented to me. I had earnestly prayed to God as best I knew how to show me the way out, and I shall never forget my introduction to Science in a bright little church with friendly faces in it.

"What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me? .