Testimonies of Healing

As a child attending a Protestant church and Sunday School, I learned most of the stories of the Bible; but I could not give any reasonable definition of God. I believed in God, but how to define or express Him was something I did not know.

My father became interested in Christian Science when I was a young girl. I recall the periods of deep depression with which he was troubled and how they affected the family.

In one of Mrs. Eddy's poems, "'Feed My Sheep,'" are the well-known words ( Poems, p.

Christian Science was lovingly introduced to me when our first child was less than a year old, and I was endeavoring to emerge from several months of poor health by adherence to rules involving rest periods and curtailed activity. During this period I would attend church and study the Bible and the writings of Mrs.

Some time ago, while doing my shopping, I was suddenly seized with such violent pain in my knee and leg that I could not take another step, and I also experienced a sudden severe heart disturbance. I did not fall; but leaning against a wall, I tried to pray to God for help.

When I reached the age of ten I had attended the Sunday Schools of three different denominations in our immediate neighborhood, and then because of certain conditions found in them, my mother told me I need not go to Sunday School any more. The simple rule of religion which my mother lived, and which she taught her four sons, was, "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another" ( Rom.

In the rearing of four children, my husband and I have witnessed, through the application of Christian Science, healings of stomach disorders, contagious diseases, and broken bones. However, in spite of such positive proofs, I had at times wondered what my reaction would be if I myself were faced with a personal emergency.

Several years ago I was suffering simultaneously from three different forms of physical distress. They were hemorrhages resulting from colonitis, an infected swelling of the legs, and a painful spinal condition.

Because of a desire to learn something about the religion of my fiance, I began to read the Christian Science textbook by Mrs. Eddy.

I am a teacher, and one day as I was joining my children on the playground I inadvertently walked into a low-hanging branch of a tree. The pointed branch penetrated my eye.