Testimonies of Healing

When my brother and I were young children, my mother, who had been suffering greatly from lumbago, was told by physicians that there was no permanent cure for it. At this point a neighbor gave her a copy of the Christian Science textbook by Mrs.

My first healing in Christian Science was that of a chronic bowel disorder which had troubled me since childhood. I had had an operation for another condition and the bowel difficulty; but the latter returned within a year after the operation, and I was in constant pain.

I have had many healings in Christian Science, but the ones I recall most vividly are those which came to me when I first began studying its teachings. Each experience taught new lessons.

I became interested in Christian Science about forty years ago. During the years since then I have been blessed and healed many times.

Since I first became an earnest student of Christian Science years ago, many problems have been harmoniously worked out. Employment was found during the years of economic depression when the passing on of my husband necessitated my assuming the financial support of my two sons; and I have demonstrated, as Mrs.

To those unacquainted with the power of God, Truth, reading about the good that has come to me and to my family through my acceptance of Christian Science over thirty years ago might seem like a fairy tale. Shortly after my marriage I was faced with a problem that seemed unsurmountable, for I could find no solution.

Having fruitlessly sought health in various nerve and mental hospitals for several years, when I entered another mental hospital in the year 1955, I settled down hopelessly to its dreary routine. Shortly after my arrival, the chief medical superintendent underlined his comment that I could not last five minutes outside by having me certified as insane and in need of care and protection.

After becoming interested in Christian Science, I could not bring myself to apply for membership in a branch church because of the fear that in a case of broken bones I should not be able to rely completely on God for the healing. It was at this time that I decided to join fraternal organization, and during one of the ceremonies an associate standing next to me jumped, and his elbow accidentally hit the bridge of my nose.

My gratitude for the efficacy of the healing power of prayer in Christian Science is boundless. Prior to accepting this Science, my thought reached out for a religion that would satisfy a seeking similar to that expressed by the Psalmist in these words ( Ps.

Christian Science was offered to me by a dear friend in 1938. I accepted it gratefully, and our four children were at once enrolled in the Sunday School.