Testimonies of Healing

In 1954 I returned from a short summer trip so sick that I went to bed immediately. The severe abdominal pain I was experiencing grew worse.

"Wide as our need Thy favors fall. " The truth of this line from Hymn No.

The truths and lessons learned through a Christian Science healing remain to bless us always. Some twenty years ago our young daughter tripped over a step, striking her mouth against the tile floor.

Christian Science has blessed me in many ways, and my gratitude is boundless. My religion has given me good health and strength to lead an active life.

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.