Testimonies of Healing

I feel that in view of all the blessings that have come to me and my family in the past twenty years, I am long overdue in expressing my gratitude to God for Christian Science and its Discoverer and Founder, Mrs. Eddy.

I can truly sing with the Psalmist ( Ps. 40:1, 2 ): "I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

At first I was a casual reader of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and therefore I understood very little of what I read, having no conception of its priceless quality.

It has been my great privilege to have been a member of a Christian Science family all my life. The spiritual truths known for me in childhood and the habit taught me then to discipline my own thoughts, speech, and action to honor only God, include only good, have kept my human experience almost completely free from illness.

When a problem doesn't yield to our prayerful efforts, it is often helpful to turn thought away from self and the contemplation of the problem and to work impersonally for the world. This point was brought rather forcefully to my attention when I was returning from a vacation trip in the East.

Even though I was very frail, I began to teach in a rural school before I was eighteen years of age. The doctors predicted that I would have a nervous breakdown, and in a few years their predictions came true.

Before his marriage my father took up the study of Christian Science after being healed through it of a ruptured appendix. My mother also started studying it after my brother was healed of an illness that appeared so serious at one point that she feared he was passing on.

My parents are earnest students of Christian Science, and when I was still a baby, I was healed of crossed eyes. For a year my parents tried to work out the problem through their own study and prayer.

I have had so many proofs of the healing power of Christian Science that I find it difficult to single out a few to relate in one testimony. One of the healings for which I am most grateful occurred during the premature birth of our second grandchild.

When I look back over the years that I have been a student of Christian Science, it is difficult to find adequate words to express my gratitude for the many blessings and convincing proofs of its healing power I have had. I had not had much experience in practicing Christian Science when our baby son developed an eye disease.