Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

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.

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.

My first opportunity to know about Christian Science came when I was a child and an aunt offered me some copies of the Christian Science Sentinel to read. A nasal operation had left me in great discomfort, but since my parents were opposed to Science, I refused to look at the Sentinels.

Although I was reared in Christian Science and, along with my mother and father and brother, had many healings over the years through its application, it was not until I was married and had children of my own that I began to appreciate fully its importance and to recognize my responsibility to it and the need to demonstrate it daily in my affairs. Our two boys have had quick healings of colds and fever through reliance on God alone.

Although as a young child I attended a Christian Science Sunday School, I left it altogether at the age of ten and never gave Christian Science another thought until I was married and had three young children of my own. Then one day I happened to take a mental inventory of myself and was quite dismayed to discover how little there was to admire in myself.

Christian Science first came to the attention of my mother when I was a very young boy and she had just been left a widow with a very meager income in a small prairie town in the West. She became deeply interested in it at once and devoted every possible moment to the study of the Bible and of the textbook by Mrs.

A happier, more harmonious, way of life opened to me when I made an intensive effort to see man as he really is—the image and likeness of God. Christian Science was presented to my family when I was a small child.