Testimonies of Healing

I shall always be grateful that Christian Science came into my home while I was still a little girl. My father was a minister, and the Bible was deeply loved in our home, but its practical healing value remained undiscovered until a copy of the Christian Science textbook by Mrs.

When a young man, I was a moderate user of tobacco, but soon after I was through school I became a heavy smoker. I was engaged in a business where my time was my own, and there was no restraint on how much I smoked.

My mother was reared in a Christian home, but as she grew to young womanhood she found that she could not accept religion as it had been presented to her. After her marriage she became concerned with what she would do when she had children and could give them no religious teaching.

A Sunday School teacher I once had pointed out to his class the importance of giving God the credit for the unfoldment of good in our human affairs. I was making many demonstrations of the truths of Christian Science at the time, but my gratitude had not been the equivalent of those wonderful proofs.

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.