Testimonies of Healing

When Christian Science was presented to me over twenty-seven years ago I had been burdened for some years with a form of enterocolitis, which a surgeon finally said he was unable to cure. At this juncture, I received the news of the healing of an aunt, who had suffered from asthma for twenty-five years.

For many years various members of my family and I have received help, comfort, and support from the study of Christian Science. As a child I had the great benefit of attending the Sunday School of a Church of Christ, Scientist, and I developed a love for the truths taught there that has never wavered.

I shall always be grateful for our need of finding a home shortly after World War II, when housing was very difficult to obtain. It was through this need that we found that "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" ( Ps.

I should like to express my gratitude for the teachings of Mrs. Eddy and the spiritual understanding they impart, for the revelation of the true meaning of the Holy Scriptures and for their practical availability in all difficult and discordant circumstances.

When I became interested in Christian Science I was a registered nurse and had become thoroughly indoctrinated with materia medica, believing it to be the only method of healing. I was convinced that I could never accept Science as a healing agency.

For several years during a period of economic depression, I was troubled with impaired hearing. This condition developed at a time of great shock and sorrow.

Although Christian Science was presented to me two or three times during a twenty-year period, I did not turn to it for help until a mental disturbance, manifesting itself in the form of fear for our children, so engulfed me in darkness and helplessness that life held no interest for me, and all I could think of was how it could be brought to an end. Then urged by my loving husband, I consented to have him call the Christian Science Wartime Minister (as such workers were then called) for the post at which my husband was stationed at the time.

Through the study and practice of Christian Science and with the help of a practitioner, I have been blessed during the last three years or so with many physical healings, as well as healings of fear, sorrow, a sense of limitation, a bad temper, swearing, and alcoholic drinking. I should like first to tell how I found Science.

When Christian Science was first presented to me I was in great need of help. I was suffering from an acute infection of the sinuses.

I am ever more grateful for having been reared as a Christian Scientist. It is a happy privilege to be able to put the scientific understanding of being to practical use every day and to be able to share the wonderful truths of God and man with our children and also with a teen-age Sunday School class.