Testimonies of Healing

Mrs. Eddy's explanation of God is the most wonderful gift given to the world since our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, was here.

When I first heard of Christian Science, I had confidence that it would help me with my problems in a practical way. I am grateful to have had the opportunity of attending the Christian Science Sunday School for several years in Germany and in England.

Gratitude for Christian Science and a strong desire to join the Church of Christ, Scientist, freed me one Sunday afternoon of the smoking habit, which had held me in bondage for over twenty years. Several months previous to this healing I had been awakened to the power of the Word by a brief visit to a Christian Science Reading Room.

When I was still quite a little girl, I was impressed by the marvelous healing of my grandmother. I had never known her when she was not ill and in bed, and I always had to keep very quiet whenever I was near her.

Toward the end of my university studies, I was in need of a summer job to obtain funds for further education. In spite of a severe labor surplus in my field, due to the recent cancellation of a very large military contract, I was guided into proper employment at a good salary.

It is with joy that I record the happiness, progress, and fulfillment which have come into my experience since I began the study of Christian Science in 1952. At that time I had resigned from one profession, had achieved only mediocre success in a second, and, through lack of capital, was failing in a third.

In my childhood I was surrounded with fear, medical beliefs and laws, domestic misery, suspicion and bitterness, ill health and apprehensions. My young womanhood was colored with much of the same.

I found Christian Science, when I was hungering and thirsting for the truth, through a copy of the Journal which I obtained from a distribution rack located in a railroad station. I had just become a stewardess in the Air Force, traveling over the Atlantic Ocean regularly.

Our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says in Science and Health on pages 470 and 471, "The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history.

" Willing the sick to recover is not the metaphysical practice of Christian Science, but is sheer animal magnetism. " So states our Leader on page 144 of the Christian Science textbook.