Testimonies of Healing

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.

I should like to tell of the first healing I had in Science. It has been a poignant reminder that "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" ( Ps.

Sometime ago I became deeply involved in a business problem which caused great dismay and threatened business failure. I realized the basic cause of this frustration was disobedience and lack of self-discipline, yet all mortal efforts to extricate myself seemed only to plunge me deeper into the mire of fearful thinking, which finally resulted in a nervous collapse.

When Christian Science was first presented to me many years ago, I was unprepared to accept its teachings; and after a cursory perusal of the textbook by Mrs. Eddy, which had been kindly loaned me, I returned it with the thought that I would be unable to gain the necessary faith.

[Original in French] About nine years ago I was living in a very busy section of town; and because my apartment was in the middle of things, it was also very convenient to my work and to the theater and to literary meetings. But I had been interested in Christian Science for about ten years, and my former diversions lost much of their attraction for me.

For the past several years great inspiration and healings have come to my mother and me through the work of a consecrated practitioner, who roused both of us to a more active and dedicated study and application of Christian Science. In particular I wish to write of a healing of my mother which took place in 1962.

My last testimony appeared in the Sentinel in March, 1957. And it is time I submitted another! This time I should like to express gratitude first for a healing of arthritis.