Testimonies of Healing
I was educated in a religion that did not sustain me, and I prayed to be led to Truth. Our Father-Mother God has indeed blessed me with His answer, Christian Science.
In my teens I lived in a small town where I became acquainted with a Christian Scientist, who truly let her light shine. She explained the Bible more clearly than anyone else I had ever known.
Not having found satisfactory answers to many questions and problems through membership and active participation in an orthodox Protestant church, I spent a number of years away from church and investigated other faiths. Unfavorable conditions of health and disposition relating back to childhood and supposedly prenatal in origin had neither been healed nor alleviated through the prayers of my church or through my own efforts to find God's presence, although I sought Him diligently.
"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength" ( Isa. 40:31 ).
I once returned from vacation to my office to find that some problems had accumulated. There were a number of decisions that had to be made, and I found that a feeling of pressure and fatigue was replacing the happiness and refreshment with which I had returned from the holiday with my family.
I was led into Christian Science many years ago, not because I was seeking physical healing, but because I was searching for true religion as practiced by Christ Jesus and his disciples. I always knew that Christianly scientific government was operating, but I never thought I would find it in this world.
In my childhood and youth I attended a Christian Science Sunday School. During my college experience I drifted away from the teachings and study of Science.
Most assuredly Mrs. Eddy realized the importance of gratitude when she wrote in the Manual of The Mother Church ( Art.
Love and gratitude for Mrs. Eddy, reverence for the Christian Science movement, which she founded, and special appreciation of her establishment of the Christian Science Sunday School, motivate the following testimony.
I am humbly grateful for Christian Science, for it means everything to me and has met my every need in the forty years since I first read a borrowed copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.