Testimonies of Healing

When quite a young woman, I sojourned with a farm family on the prairie of a northern state. Winter temperatures had dropped many degrees below zero.

I first heard of Christian Science the year I entered college. A copy of Science and Health by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mrs.

On more than one occasion I had wondered if I would have the courage to solve a problem with Christian Science if faced with an emergency. When injured in an automobile accident about two years ago, I found that it was the most natural thing for me to declare to the hospital authorities where I was taken that I was a Christian Scientist and wished to be released from hospital and that I would rely on Christian Science treatment for my healing.

I wish to relate a healing of jealousy and a bad disposition that came about through the consecrated, prayerful work of a Christian Science practitioner. As a result of this work, I learned many important lessons in obedience.

I was introduced to Christian Science through the healing of my mother. While visiting relatives, I received a message that she had been taken to the hospital after being stricken with great pain.

It has been said that a person becomes a student of Christian Science because he is either seeking a physical healing or desires to learn more of God. I was led to take up the study of this practical religion because of the first reason—the need of healing.

It was a blessed day about twenty-three years ago when I told my fiancee, a Christian Scientist, that I would attend her church and that after we were married I would allow any children we might have to attend a Christian Science Sunday School, although I would not promise that the children would have no medical aid. To date, with the children now of college age or older, there has been no need to insist on medical treatment for them, because Christian Science has proved to be a quick, effective means of taking care of their human needs while carrying them through the years to spiritual and moral advancement.

I am fifteen years old, and in my fifteen years as a Christian Scientist I have had many examples of God's ever-present love and healing power. I go to Sunday School every week to get a clearer view of the Lesson-Sermon, and many times I have learned something new about it I had not realized before.

Words can never express the gratitude which my husband and I felt when, through complete reliance on Christian Science, our teen-age daughter was quickly healed of a fractured jaw. Three years ago on the day before Thanksgiving I was called by a school official who stated that our daughter had fainted and had had a severe fall.

To workers in the Christian Science movement who sometimes feel their efforts are not effective and to all who serve so unselfishly in the Reading Rooms and Sunday Schools, I offer this testimony. If the seed of Truth is sown, it somehow, sometime, must produce fruit.