Testimonies of Healing
My expression of gratitude for the spiritual rebirth and regeneration which Christian Science has brought into my life and into our home is long past due. My healing was truly one of baptism, for, as our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.
Many years ago I was profitably employed as a salesman in the liquor industry. One day, while working in the vicinity of my home, I decided to stop in for lunch, only to find one of my children in great distress.
Because of Christian Science my life has been made over from one of hopelessness and despair to one of joy and fulfillment. In gratitude for the good I have received, I wish to add my testimony to the many that have given me renewed courage and strength over a period of more than thirty years.
My first healing in Christian Science was an instantaneous one of the smoking habit. It was brought about through my reading the testimonies of healing in a Christian Science Sentinel which a member of my family brought home from a literature distribution rack in a beauty shop.
The second verse of Psalm 40 reads, "He brought me up .
It is with a heart overflowing with gratitude to God that I write this testimony. Christian Science means more to me than I can ever express in words.
How does one set about expressing his gratitude for a lifetime of Christian Science blessings? Such a lifetime has been mine. Over fifty years ago as a boy I had the good fortune to be introduced to this Science of Life by a devoted aunt who had experienced its blessings.
Over fifty years ago, while reading for the first time the chapter on Prayer in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, I knew I had found what I was looking for.
Many blessings and healings have come to me through Christian Science in the years since a very dear friend told me of this wonderful religion and said that it would heal me. I had never known what it was to be well, and I had little or no happiness in my childhood and young girlhood days.
As a child I suffered under the inharmonious conditions in my parents' home. So I sought comfort in orthodox theology, but did not find it.