Testimonies of Healing

When we were first married over forty years ago, my wife began the study of Christian Science and later joined a branch church. These steps were resisted by me because of our orthodox church association and because I felt that another influence was entering our happy married life.

I have had many beautiful healings in the thirty-three years in which I have been a student of Christian Science, but none has caused more gratitude than one I had in recent years, even though this was a slow healing. I was mowing the lawn when the mower hit a bed of what are known in this locality as fire ants.

Christian Science was presented to me more than forty years ago, and I am sincerely grateful for the many benefits and healings I have experienced since then. When our daughter was quite young, I was awakened one night by her coughing, which went on and on.

I often stop to express my gratitude silently for having been brought up by two devoted Christian Scientists. I am well aware that the priceless gift which my mother and father have given to me is an introduction to this wonderful Science.

It wasn't until after I became a student of Christian Science that I realized why I was instantaneously healed of a painful nervous condition. I was in the office when this attack came on, and I didn't know where to turn.

When a volcano in the eastern mountains of Bali, Indonesia, erupted about two years ago, I was staying with my daughter in a remote house about two thousand feet up the mountain. We could see the rocks thrown out of the crater, and soon rivers of treacly black mud and torrents of very hot water rushed down, followed by lava which destroyed everything in its path.

I discovered that God does answer prayer, for Christian Science came into my experience as a result of prayer. Just a few months after learning of this new way of life, I had an instantaneous healing of grief at the time of my mother's passing and was sustained and given courage.

Jesus caused Nicodemus to wonder when he said ( John 3:3 ), "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. " Christian Science healing is one manifestation of man's spiritual rebirth.

I have known of Christian Science since my childhood. A member of my immediate family was interested in the religion, but it was not until I was on my own, pursuing a career, a highly competitive profession in the arts, that I felt the need of an inner strength.

God is my Physician, and the administering of spiritual truths has been my sole remedy for the healing of every ailment and the solution of every problem for many years. I surely can echo Isaiah's words to God ( 26:3 ), "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.