Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.