Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science came into my life upon my entering high school when my brother and I rejoined our mother after having been separated for some years due to a divorce in the family. Our mother had taken up the study of Christian Science, and as I look back, I am grateful that we accepted so naturally and easily this new way of thinking and acting.

How wonderful to know that Christian Science is the Comforter promised by Jesus and that any problem, great or small, can be solved through the proper application of this truth! Having studied Christian Science for many years now, I greatly desire to tell something of what it has done for me. When I was in my early teens, I suffered with a disease on my hands diagnosed as eczema.

One beautiful fall day while riding along the highway to visit a member of the family, I felt that the only way out of my troubles was to let the car wander off the road and crash, thus ending it all. I had many family and business worries and was a heavy drinker and a chain smoker.

When I recall the waymarks of the years in which I have been a student of Christian Science, it is difficult to find words adequate to express my gratitude for the many blessings I have received through the healing power of Truth as found in the teachings of Christian Science. After my marriage in 1900, an ailment that had been prevalent in my childhood grew worse.

I am grateful for those who persisted against every threat, even death itself, to record and to preserve the sacred Scriptures and to establish the worship of the one God, for the faithful Jesus, our Exemplar, for the life of Mrs. Eddy, and for all who have seen the significance of her mission and have sacrificed whatever was necessary to serve its purpose.

"To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. " These words in Psalm 30 impelled me to write the following account of a few of the beneficial effects of the application of Christian Science in my family.

Two healings in my experience have served as landmarks. They occurred within a short period of time, and each in its own way made me realize that the study of Christian Science had started me on a way of life from which there could be no turning, unless I wished to live by guesswork, or trial and error, instead of by divine Principle.

Christian Science came into my experience at a time when I was in great need of a practical religion. I shall never forget the joy of the first healing I witnessed, which came about through my own reading of the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.

I am deeply grateful for Christian Science and its merciful message to mankind. As a young adult I found myself in a very unhappy situation and unhealed of a displaced spinal disk after more than a year of medical treatment.

Religious questions had always especially interested me. Although I knew almost nothing about the Old and New Testaments, I was very skeptical, since I saw little practical application of Christian teachings.