Testimonies of Healing

It is with a deep sense of gratitude and joy that I recall my first visit to a Christian Science practitioner many years ago, for it was then and there that my journey into the land of Science began. I went with a member of my family who was seeking healing, but I had no thought that I myself needed Science.

I should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science and particularly for a healing that I had while I was attending junior high school. Our city was gripped by an intense fear of infantile paralysis and was in quarantine, the public schools and Sunday Schools having been closed.

One of the cherished recollections of my childhood is that of my mother reading from a big book of Bible stories as my sisters and I clustered about her. I was impressed with the healings Jesus performed, particularly the one of the man whose bed was let down through the roof, so that he lay at the feet of our Master (see Mark 2 ).

Christian Science was first brought to the attention of our family in 1912 when my father was healed of a serious illness. For eighteen months he had searched in vain for healing of a stomach condition through medical treatment and had finally been told that nothing could be done for him.

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.