Testimonies of Healing
On a hillside outside Port-au-Prince Haiti, just over forty years ago, a group of Christian Scientists met at the home of one of them to read the Christian Science Quarterly Lesson-Sermon together on Sundays. I was among the children of this group, and our first Sunday School was held outside on the lawn which overlooked a valley and verdant hills beyond.
In Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy we read ( p.
Christian Science came to me when I prayed for the understanding of how Jesus healed. I was a member of an orthodox church and had relied on medicine all my life.
Christian Science has been the way of Life for me for many years. When I was twenty years of age, I lived in the homes of two families who were Christian Scientists and saw Science lived, and I was greatly impressed.
My prayer for help in a dark hour brought to my door that very evening a stranger offering a copy of a Christian Science lecture. This woman had just finished reading it herself, and her obedience to an angel message to pass the lecture on opened a new life to me.
The statement from Isaiah ( 45:5 ), "I girded thee, though thou hast not known me," is applicable to my experience in Christian Science. Sometime between 1890 and 1895 my father met a friend and former employer.
I was born and reared in Christian Science and attended Sunday School until I reached the age of twenty. However, it was not until several years after finishing Sunday School that I really appreciated and fully realized just how much Science meant to me.
Words cannot express the gratitude I feel to God for the goodness and grace and the supply of right ideas that have been manifested to me through Christian Science. I am grateful for all the guidance and divine protection, but, above all, for the illuminating fact that God did not give us a sinful character but created the true man in His image and likeness.
Struggling to throw off a feeling of despair over my poor prospects for a happy and worthwhile life, I was walking along a street in a little town one Wednesday evening in the summer of 1941. This street led me to a church, the door of which was open and in which some people were singing.
A positive and correct statement of Christian Science when prayerfully made, even though not fully understood, often brings healing. I have had wonderful proof of this.