Testimonies of Healing

I was brought up in a Protestant faith and dutifully attended Sunday School; but the longer I stayed, the more questions I asked. The Bible was confusing, self-contradictory, and it seemed no one could answer my questions satisfactorily.

My family and I have had many wonderful healings in Christian Science, but there are two which have given the greatest impetus to my growth in understanding God and man's relationship to Him. In the textbook Mrs.

I began to attend the Sunday School of a Church of Christ, Scientist, with a friend while I was in my teens, and within a short while my family began to notice a difference in my character, expressed in less selfishness and a better temper. I shall always be grateful to the two teachers I had while in Sunday School.

Nearly twenty years ago as I was walking to an appointment with a Christian Science practitioner, I felt a sudden sharp pain in the lower part of my back. With considerable difficulty, I reached her office and was able later to walk slowly home.

When I was driving one evening on a mountainous road, the wheels of my car ran into soft dirt left on the road after excavation work. To avoid a fire hydrant, I turned the wheels with great force, causing the car to cross the road and plunge two hundred and sixty-five feet almost straight down the mountainside.

I shall always remember with joy and gratitude my first reading of the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

About twenty years ago I was greatly discouraged. For a long time life had seemed to me a tempest, filled with grueling work, with physical and moral suffering.

Since my first testimony, which appeared in the Sentinel over ten years ago and in which I expressed humble gratitude for God's protection and His divine guidance, we have had many proofs of His love in our family. During an extremity, when unemployment and lack were manifesting themselves in our home, I awakened to the fact that this was God's opportunity to fulfill for us Jesus' promise ( Matt.

Christian Science came to me about thirteen years ago, when I felt as though I had reached the end of my rope. I was sick, had no home, no employment, and very little money, and was under the care of a physician, who had told me that because of a back difficulty I should not do work which required standing.

I am more grateful every day that we have the teachings of Christian Science in our home to study and to apply in our experience. There was a period in my life when I did not appreciate this fact.