Testimonies of Healing

It is indeed a joy to glorify God in the spirit of overflowing gratitude and to glorify Him in relating how Christian Science has brought health and harmony to a body which had been laid low by disease. Twelve years ago, when a mobile X-ray unit was in our town, I was X-rayed and later told that I had active tuberculosis in one lung.

When we learn to apply Christian Science, difficult experiences naturally turn into blessings, and our gratitude for proofs of God's care becomes greater than we can express in words. While en route to a resort last year we had to travel over some roads made very rough by a recent flash flood in that area.

For some years I have wanted to submit a testimony to our periodicals, but I have indulged in postponement because of the feeling that unless I had something fairly dramatic to relate, my contribution might be of little interest to others. Recently, however, it has become clearer to me that since the eternal revelation of the facts of Spirit is continuous, natural, and normal, an account of orderly progress, of a life made year by year more harmonious, more useful, and more satisfying through the teachings of Christian Science, would not be without value.

I shall always be grateful that Christian Science found me at an age which allowed me the wonderful privilege of attending a Sunday School for a period of a year and a half. This great blessing still continues to unfold.

It would be impossible to enumerate here all the blessings unfolded to our family since the time a friend placed a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy in my hands and I found this profound statement on page vii of the Preface: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.

When I became interested in Christian Science, I had no particular faith in its power to heal and felt no need of physical healing; but I had always been very religious, and it appealed to me as practical instruction about God. I wondered why the words "Key to the Scriptures" appeared in the title of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

My mother, who had been left with three young children at the passing on of my father, was instantaneously healed through Christian Science of the need for wearing glasses, although the doctors had forecast dire results if she did not continue to wear them. This healing came in direct answer to her prayer to be shown if Christian Science was the right religion for her to turn to.

I learned about Christian Science a few months before the beginning of the First World War in 1914. A woman from America came to visit relatives in Latvia, and when she heard of my suffering from severe headaches, she came to visit me and advised me to turn to Christian Science for help.

I had known about Christian Science since I was a child, but I had only ridiculed it and had thought scathing things about anyone who practiced it. However, I did feel that there must be an answer to the seeming paradoxes of the life around me and in the universe.

With a sincere desire to encourage others who may believe there is little hope, I can testify that when alcohol had brought me to the point of despair, I turned to a Christian Science practitioner for treatment and was instantly healed of all desire for alcohol. I could fill a book with my gratitude for this healing alone; but it was followed in good time, with the help of a practitioner, by the healings of nervousness, sleeplessness, high blood pressure, severe chest pains, failing eyesight, a large tumor on one eyelid, growths, both internal and external, and other conditions.