Testimonies of Healing

It is high time that I bore witness to all the help I have received from the study of Christian Science. I have been studying it since the First World War, during which, although I did not realize it, I was being protected by God through the prayerful thoughts of a relation who was a Scientist.

It was my privilege to attend a Christian Science Sunday School, and I had my first proof of God's power to heal in my early teens. I was playing baseball on the school playground when I hurt myself and fell and found I was unable to stand upright.

On the day I arrived home from the hospital for the fifth time in a year and a half, a friend dropped by and handed me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and commented that she had felt guided to introduce me to the Christ-healing through the understanding of God, which is Christian Science. I knew nothing of Christian Science; but since the doctors had just told me again that they found nothing physically wrong with me in spite of repeated attacks of such abdominal and intestinal pain as to necessitate the use of morphine, I happily considered any reasonable avenue toward relief.

Christian Science has brought such a multitude of blessings into my experience that I cannot begin to number them. Very early in my study of Science I was freed from the cigarette habit.

An unhappy childhood followed by a tragic marriage left me feeling godless, hopeless, homeless. My one treasure was my little daughter, but my superstitious fears for her made the rearing of her more painful than joyful.

Christian Science has been a guiding influence in our home since I was a child. I shall always be grateful that my mother was receptive to this truth when it was presented to her by my father's relatives.

Through Christian Science I have received a developing sense of direction and purpose in my life. I feel this has been an invaluable gift, and it makes me deeply grateful for the fact that Mrs.

Since early childhood I have been blessed with Christian Science as my religion, and through the years I have received innumerable proofs of the efficacy of its healing power. During the Second World War, I was living on the outskirts of a large industrial city, and every night during the periods the city was being blitzed I experienced proofs of divine Love's protecting power.

Although I attended a Christian Science Sunday School as a young girl, I became a member of The Mother Church and a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, only a dozen or so years ago. During the intervening years after leaving Sunday School, I married a non-Scientist, whose father was a missionary.

It has been my joyous privilege to be reared in Christian Science. I have experienced wonderful protection, guidance, and healing.