Testimonies of Healing

Some time ago, when I was desperately in need of help, I turned to the study of Christian Science for a solution to my problem, which was not physical, but what is commonly called psychological. I needed a true sense of values to replace the false, crumbling materialistic concepts of happiness and success which had brought me to a point of complete despair.

I prize most dearly the absolute confidence and conviction I have gained in Christian Science: that all human problems can be solved through an understanding of God. There have been so many of my own problems solved in the past thirty years, healings of disease, pain, lack, fear, inharmony, that although every problem has not yet been solved nor has every question been answered, I know that this can be accomplished and will be, and I am immeasurably grateful.

As a boy in my teens I witnessed much injustice, wickedness, and cruelty during World War I, and I asked myself for what reason the people were suffering from these crimes and for what reason I was experiencing them too. So I started then to think the question over.

I was first healed in Christian Science as an infant when my family was living in the tropics. I had been unable to retain food and was losing weight rapidly; but through the help of a Christian Science practitioner the healing came quickly.

I feel that I cannot be grateful enough to Christian Science for the many blessings it has showered upon my family for four generations. It was many years ago that a dear neighbor introduced Christian Science to my paternal grandmother, who was at that time searching for Truth.

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.