Testimonies of Healing
When I was released from a concentration camp in June, 1945, I was told that I had contracted tuberculosis. X-ray pictures showed that a lung was badly affected.
It is with a grateful heart that I think of Mrs. Eddy, who has given to mankind the revelation of the truth which Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, promised us.
Many years ago a doctor told me that I would have to endure asthma and bronchitis. He said that I was incurable and that further visits to him would be useless.
Through a dear relative, Christian Science first came into my life when I was a young child. We lived a rather isolated life, and I learned to read Science and Health by Mrs.
The Christian Science textbook was in our home when I was a child because a business acquaintance had seen the need for it and invited my father to go to a Christian Science Reading Room, from which he purchased the book. However, the study of Christian Science was not taken up by my family, and I continued to attend a Protestant Sunday School.
Shortly before the Second World War, I moved with my family from our hometown, and at this time I rebelled violently against Christian Science and every discipline I had ever known, smoking and drinking to excess for the next thirteen years. Our home suffered immensely and was filled with inharmony, and our supply was insufficient.
Christian Science was presented to me at a time of great financial and physical need. I had a deep basic faith in God, and so I could accept wholeheartedly all that Christian Science stood for.
When Christian Science found me, I was in an unhappy condition. I was just out of a hospital where I had been taking treatments for a severe case of eczema.
When my parents were first married, they were well acquainted with a family in which the mother was a devout Christian Scientist. Dissatisfied with the practicality of their own religions and inspired by the example of this woman, they decided to adopt Christian Science as their family religion.
Christian Science has corrected discordant conditions many times in my experience. I am grateful not only for the healings themselves but also for the fact that each healing proves the power and presence of a loving Father-Mother God and that Life is eternal.