Testimonies of Healing
I experienced a wonderful healing through the ministrations of Christian Science in the winter of 1937. One Friday night when the roads were already covered with ice, heavy snow fell on top of it.
Four months after I was demobilized after the Second World War, I accepted a post in another town, moving there during the hard winter of 1947. Coal and power were stringently rationed, and my rooms were comfortless.
Truly Christian Science is the promised Comforter! I had known the Lord's Prayer as a child, and I looked to the Bible at an early age for comfort because of an inharmonious condition in our home. Several years later I was led to read Science and Health by Mrs.
I had been a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School since early childhood, having experienced freedom from the so-called children's diseases and having a very happy life. After my marriage, however, I strayed from the teachings of Science and its practice and for about ten years sought my happiness and well-being in people, places, and things.
At the age of ten I was living in bondage to asthma. Then Christian Science literature was given to my mother, who was expecting a child and had been told that she could never give birth to another child and live.
" This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success" ( Josh. 1:8 ).
My first testimony appeared in the Journal of June, 1954. Since that time I have experienced many further proofs of God's loving care for His children.
" Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" ( John 8:32 ). This statement of Jesus has been proved true in my own experience.
When I left a Christian Science Sunday School at the age of twenty, I might have thanked my teachers in the following words from the Bible ( Ps. 16:6 ): "The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
At one time I made daily trips to a doctor's office for treatments for a back condition that was very painful. There was no improvement; so a bone specialist was asked to see me.