Testimonies of Healing

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.

Words seem inadequate to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for Mrs. Eddy, to whose inspired thought was revealed the scientific significance of Christ Jesus' words and works and to whose selfless devotion and love for mankind we owe the Christian Science textbook, as well as her other writings, and the establishment of the Christian Science movement.

I am grateful to have had early instruction in a Christian Science Sunday School. This has meant a great deal to me in establishing freedom from fear of disease, and it has protected me from many common material beliefs that are generally accepted.

From childhood I always sought for a God that I could understand. The explanations given to me by my parents and teachers did not satisfy me, and it was not till I grew up that I heard of Christian Science through an aunt who had begun to study it.

Two summers ago, during a dry spell, I decided to apply a dust allayant on our driveway. I secured this material at a dealer's, and two men lifted the bag into the rear compartment of my car.

Sometime ago I could hardly use my hands at all and only with much agony. They were so swollen and out of shape that I could not write; in fact, my entire body seemed to be out of joint because of arthritis.