Testimonies of Healing

There is so much for which I have to be grateful, and it is all due to Christian Science. My brothers and I were reared in a home where there was complete reliance on this religion, and we experienced many instantaneous healings.

My mother brought Christian Science to my father's family and to my father when he and she were married. While a young girl, I evidenced symptoms of a nervous condition and was examined by the school doctor.

I feel impelled to express my gratitude for what I owe to Christian Science. My outstanding experience was a remarkable escape in a motor accident.

Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p.

I shall always be grateful for a loving Christian family who taught me from early childhood to love God and to turn to Him for comfort and help in time of trouble. However, I was not satisfied with the contradictions which the Bible seemed to contain concerning the nature of God.

Before I found the way in Christian Science sixteen years ago, I had been very ill, had had to be operated on often, and therefore felt uncertain and insecure. To all this were added recurring periods in which I had to lie in bed in great pain, almost incapable of motion, because, as the result of a fall from a horse, I had incurred a slight fracture of the pelvis and crushed vertebrae.

I am very grateful to God for the loving protection and guidance which have come to me in fulfillment of these words in Hymn No. 136 of the Christian Science Hymnal: Thy presence ever goes with me And Thou dost give me peace.

"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. " These words from Psalm 19 express well my thoughts as I endeavor to put into words my gratitude for Christian Science, for all that I have I attribute to my understanding of it.

In Birmingham, Alabama, early in the year 1901, Christian Science found its way into our home through a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. A friend presented this book to my mother and urged her to read it.

The turning point in my life as a Christian Scientist came when I was healed of a sense of fear so great that it had manifested itself in alarming physical symptoms. At one point I felt I might pass on, not so much from physical discomfort as from the tenacity of this aggressive suggestion of fear which seemed to numb my thinking to the truths of God and man.