Testimonies of Healing
For the privilege of being reared in a home where both parents were Christian Scientists and for attendance at a Christian Science Sunday School until the age of twenty, I am deeply grateful. On page 3 of her work "Unity of Good," Mrs.
Christian Science was first presented to me by a friend while I was in a hospital taking the training course for nurses. At first I doubted and disbelieved the Christian Science healings of which my friend told me.
I am one who was healed by reading the Christian Science textbook by Mrs. Eddy.
Christian Science has so transformed my life for the better that I feel impelled to share this unfoldment with others who may be searching for the truth. About thirteen years ago, when I was without proper employment or a permanent home and had a young son to bring up single-handed, Christian Science was presented to me.
Our Leader tells us in Science and Health ( p. 57 ): "Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love.
I was at home one day when an airplane crashed, demolishing a church at the back of our apartment building and setting fire to our building. For a few minutes, as the building swayed and objects flew around, it did not seem possible that I could be saved.
In joyful gratitude for all the blessings that have come to me, to mine, and to all through the study and application of Christian Science, I wish to share the following experience. While I was visiting our daughter and her family in another state, a growth, accompanied by pain and dizziness, appeared behind my ear.
The disciples asked Jesus ( John 9:2 ), "Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" "Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. " Jesus' statement was a great comfort to me after I began the study of Christian Science.
I think it is high time for me to express through the channels provided by the Christian Science periodicals the gratitude which I owe to the teachings of Christ Jesus and of Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and which I feel for all that the study of Science has brought to me.
Several summers ago, while working in a lumberyard, I was unloading some heavy pieces of scrap lumber. In an effort to lift one from the truck I lost my balance, and, still clinging to the lumber, I fell backward off the truck.