Testimonies of Healing

As a child, before learning of Christian Science, I sought answers to many questions, but I found only confusion in the answers given to me in the different Sunday Schools and churches I attended. When I was at college, I went to a Christian Science church service with a friend.

I have been blessed by Christian Science all my life, and I wish to express my deep gratitude to God for this precious truth and for His guidance. When a child, I was healed through the work of a Christian Science practitioner of a case of trench mouth which a dentist had diagnosed as so severe that I would probably have to miss many weeks of school.

During the summer of 1960 I faced three difficult situations, all arising in the same month. My position with a national corporation was one which was subject to relocation from time to time.

During the years of the depression my mother became interested in Christian Science and enrolled me as a teen-ager in the Sunday School, an act which transformed my entire way of life. I had been considered a sickly child, suffering often from headaches, chronic hives, stomach upsets, a skin infection, and other assorted ills.

On the night the plant in which I work was to shut down for the yearly vacation, a heavy roll case was dislodged and fell across my leg, breaking the bones just above the ankle. The men I was working with asked if there was anything they could do to help me, knowing I was a student of Christian Science.

I was born in Italy into a family with little means. My parents had many children; and because she needed me to help her, my mother didn't send me to school.

I am grateful for a healing which was manifested in our home about two years ago and which a number of persons, not Christian Scientists, acknowledged as the effect of God's law in operation. The school authorities called to say that they thought our daughter had impetigo and that if it was impetigo, they didn't want the child in the classroom where she could contaminate others.

As a child I was sent to a Christian Science Sunday School, although this religion was not practiced in my home at the time. However, I left the Sunday School in my teens, thinking I wanted to be more worldly.

When Christian Science came into my experience, I was ten years old. The atmosphere in our home had been sad and tense for months owing to family troubles culminating in my mother's collapse with a nervous breakdown.

Perhaps those who have had Christian Science as their religion from childhood hardly realize the magnitude of its effect and the wonder of discovering that such a Science of Life exists. The permanent challenge and adventure which one's experience becomes as one applies the teachings of Science certainly "make all things new" ( Rev.