Testimonies of Healing

The remarkable and sudden change in my affairs that occurred a number of years ago may be likened to that of the Bible story of the prodigal son given in the fifteenth chapter of Luke. I was a student of Christian Science for many years, a member of The Mother Church, and an active member of a Christian Science branch church, but I permitted a series of tragic circumstances, including failing health, to lead me away from this Science into the byways of materia medica and worldliness.

One summer morning my chauffeur and I went to a remote quarry with two trucks to pick up raw materials. At the quarry I had an accident and sustained head injuries.

It is with much gratitude that I look back on my youth and realize what understanding my parents exercised in not requiring me to follow either of their religious beliefs. I experienced a feeling of void, though, whenever I saw my friends attend their churches and Sunday Schools and I could not participate.

One cannot inherit the spiritual understanding of Christian Science from human parents, for it comes through individual growth. My mother was a Christian Scientist before I was born, but at the age of twenty I came under the influence of one whose religious views confused me and turned me away from Science.

As both an undergraduate and a graduate student at a large university, I was able to prove consistently that God, divine Mind, is the source of all intelligence and that His image and likeness, man, expresses the divine intelligence. During examination time I was able to prove repeatedly and conclusively that when we prepare our work with thoroughness and then listen quietly and calmly for God's angel messages and guidance, the correct answers will be immediately forthcoming right when we need them.

Christian Science heals the sick. It healed me of cancer in the last stages over thirty-five years ago.

Christian Science came into my life in 1932, when I was a very young girl. My father had attended a Christian Science Sunday School for a few years as a boy and during that time had memorized "the scientific statement of being" ( Science and Health by Mrs.

In my late teens I commenced to question if I really had learned to rely upon God or if I was inclined to rely upon my mother, who was a Christian Science practitioner. Later on an accident occurred that gave me the answer to this perplexing question.

Although I was greatly in need of healing, both physical and mental, my desire for a satisfying church home was the impelling force which led me into Christian Science. Activity in a Protestant church had not met my basic need, whereas joyous participation in branch church activities and membership in The Mother Church provide a fully satisfied experience.

I must express gratitude for Christian Science, the reason for the joy and peacefulness I feel these days. During my college years I strayed from the teachings of my loving and devoted Christian Science parents and my Christian Science Sunday School teachers to the extent that I took up smoking and occasional social drinking.