Testimonies of Healing

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.

When Christian Science was introduced to me as a means of healing, I was to have a major operation in a few days. I had previously read some of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and I had no prejudice toward this religion.

When a young boy, I used to think, "If everyone were just like Jesus, there wouldn't be any trouble anywhere. " Early in 1957 I became interested in Christian Science through my wife, who, though never excluding me from Science in her thought, always refrained from preaching or pushing this religion.

When I was eight my mother became interested in Christian Science through a friend who invited her to attend a Wednesday testimony meeting. I remember my mother's telling her friend of being discouraged in her present church and of her insufficient understanding of God.

As I contemplate the blessings that have been mine through the study of Christian Science, I see what a guide and support it has been all my life through every type of human problem. When we were children and a crisis arose, my mother, a faithful student of Science, would call for the "Love Books"—the Bible, together with Science and Health by Mrs.

All the great peace, health, and happiness that are mine I attribute to an understanding of the truth explained in the textbook by our Leader. I owe a debt of gratitude to her.