Testimonies of Healing
For several hours preceding a hurricane that swept through Florida two years ago, I earnestly prayed for the safety of our loved ones and their homes, and I included everyone in my prayers. I tried to keep my thought aligned with the spiritual meaning of Scriptural words such as these ( Isa.
It is with a heart filled with gratitude to God for our Leader that I am prompted to relate a few of the many blessings I have received since taking up the study of Christian Science over fifty years ago. Science was presented to me by my mother, who had witnessed the healing of a loved one whose illness the doctors had failed to cure.
I first started reading Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy about twelve years ago.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE came into my life when I was a teen-ager, and I shall ever be grateful to the woman who told me about the Christian Science Sunday School. I had been earnestly praying to God to show me how to be good, and after one visit to the Sunday School I felt that God had answered my prayer.
When I was quite young my family became interested in Christian Science as the result of a healing of my mother. At a gathering of mutual friends, she had met a Christian Science practitioner, who told her a little about this, to Mother, new religion.
In 1957 I had a healing which was so complete that I should like to tell of it in the hope of thereby helping others. I was suffering from a severe nervous breakdown.
In my early twenties I found that I could no longer accept the doctrine of the orthodox church in which I had been reared. One day I felt compelled to tell my husband about my difficulty, and we decided to pray for guidance.
Our great Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes in Science and Health ( p.
Matthew, in the thirteenth chapter of his book in the New Testament, records Jesus as saying ( verses 45 and 46 ), "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. " Like this merchant, I had been searching for the pearl; but unlike him, when I found it the first time, I was unwilling to sell all and buy it.
I am grateful for having had the privilege of attending the Sunday School in a Church of Christ, Scientist, from the age of four. I had much protection and many healings; but I did not begin to study Science diligently until I had children of my own.