Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science came to our family in 1885 when a great-uncle who had been a physician-surgeon brought the good news to my grandfather that Christian Science is the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus. This uncle had given up the practice of medicine to embrace Science.

Christian Science certainly can solve all kinds of problems. In rearing a family of eight children, my husband and I have had a great many opportunities to prove this.

The textbook, Science and Health by our beloved Leader, was presented to my family by a very dear aunt, who through Christian Science had been healed of digestive troubles after many material means had failed to help her. I was at that time in a state of great mental unrest because of my unsatisfied desire to know the truth, the whys and wherefores, in other words, God.

Christian Science came into my life when I was a girl in my teens. I was in a very weakened condition, for I had been suffering from asthma for some time and physicians had said they could do no more for me.

For seventeen years' attendance in a Christian Science Sunday School, I am very grateful. During this period I was blessed with excellent health, satisfying activities and friendships, happy family relationships, and better than average academic grades.

When I began the study of Christian Science we were living in the mountains of Mexico, where my husband was employed by a lumber company. I had been ill with typhoid fever just before our baby was born; and though a kind and conscientious doctor had done all that he could to help me, I did not regain strength and found it very difficult to do the housework and care for the baby.

" Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord" ( Ps. 144:15 ).

At the age of twelve I, with my mother, two sisters, and a brother, was baptized in an orthodox church, for which I worked faithfully and conscientiously for many years. But experiencing much sickness in my family and losing several loved ones, I became discouraged and uninterested in religion and gradually drifted away from the church, feeling that there must be something more definite in religion than what I was getting from it.

I had the great privilege of being brought up in a home in which Christian Science had been accepted as the truth before I was born. My eldest brother, then a child, lay gravely ill with pneumonia.

My life before I found the way in Christian Science was one long period of frustration and unhappiness. Because of an unhappy marriage I felt like a trapped animal, and I searched continually for either a way out of my difficulties or an understanding which would be the means of accepting them.