Testimonies of Healing

One week before starting an Army para-troop training course I severely sprained my ankle. And I was to be required to engage in continual jumping activity for a month.

I have been blessed with having had Christian Science as my religion all my life, but when I found I was expecting a child, I was also quickened with an insatiable hunger and thirst for a greater understanding of Science. For the next year and a half nearly every spare minute was spent searching and studying, and I was rewarded.

Mrs. Eddy states toward the bottom of page 167 of Science and Health, "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized.

My introduction to Christian Science came while I was attending a teachers college. One of my subjects was music, and the custom of the Christian Science Society in the town was to call the music department at the college when a need arose for someone to serve as soloist.

It is my heart's desire to speak of an experience that occurred in the recent past. Since taking up the study of Christian Science with increased devotion, I have witnessed many beautiful evidences of God's healing power in cases of sickness, manifestations of supply, and in the removal of other constraints.

One has often heard the statement, "Man's extremity is God's opportunity. " This most certainly applied in my case, for I was at the point of despair over thirty years ago, having been bereft of all earthly possessions through an extended period of unemployment.

In one of her loved hymns, Mrs. Eddy assures us ( Poems, p.

When I was about seven years old, three doctors gave my father, who was suffering from heart trouble, but a few weeks to live. A kind neighbor introduced my parents to Christian Science.

I am very grateful that I had the opportunity of attending a Christian Science Sunday School during the prescribed period. My mother impressed upon me from the time I was about twelve that I should be able to heal myself and others with my knowledge of Christian Science, and this attitude certainly helped me when she and a sister passed on two years later.

In December, 1918, I was discharged from the military service quite weak from a struggle with influenza. I went home to a small northern Idaho town, and my mother told me how she had been healed by Christian Science.