Testimonies of Healing

My gratitude for our beloved Leader, who gave to the world the blessings of Christian Science, grows and grows. This Science has helped me to see God's continuous protecting care for all His children.

Christian Science was brought into our home over sixty-five years ago. My parents began to accept its teachings at that time because my mother was told after a medical diagnosis that she would not live to rear her family.

It is with humble gratitude to God and a deep and ever-growing love for Christian Science that I write this testimony. I am grateful beyond words for God's abundant goodness, for Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, and for Mrs.

I shall always be grateful to our heavenly Father for guiding my mother to renew her study of Christian Science. Her grandmother and mother had been students of it, and she had attended Sunday School as a young girl.

For over twenty-eight years now, I have been a student of Christian Science. I have had many proofs of God's presence and power and the absolute practicality of Science during these years.

I had always read the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals in a rather cursory manner; to me they often were just something with which to fill up an idle moment. Sometime ago in an hour of great need I was led to open a  Sentinel to a testimony that lifted me right out of my difficulty.

Although my first testimony appeared in the Sentinel over twenty years ago, my gratitude to God for all the good I have experienced in the intervening years is so great that I feel it must be recorded again. My wife and I have demonstrated the healing power of God, as revealed in Christian Science, in overcoming numerous physical difficulties, including a distressing organic condition, a large and very painful growth, the effects of a fall backward onto jagged rock over twenty feet below, and a disfiguring burn, which was healed without a trace of it being left.

Christian Science has turned my thinking away from the false, material sense of man to a better realization of his spiritual oneness, or unity, with God as His reflection. After serving in the Army for a short time at the end of the Second World War, I cast about for over a year and a half with no sense of aim in life and seemingly with no desire for any direction.

" Glory be to God, and peace to the struggling hearts!" These words which appear on page 45 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy express exactly my motive for writing this testimony.

It was my privilege to be enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School when I was but four years old, by my parents, who were members of an orthodox Protestant church. The early training I received and the concept I gained of God as ever-present Love are blessings which have influenced my whole life.