Testimonies of Healing

When my husband passed on, Christian Science was indeed the Comforter to me. Through the understanding that I gained of God's love for His children and of the fact that He provides all good for each one of them and is the only Mind, I have been led to make necessary adjustments harmoniously, proving that "each successive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine goodness and love" ( Science and Health by Mrs.

I am deeply grateful to God for the blessings which the study and application of the teachings of Christian Science have brought into my experience and into that of other members of my family. While my husband and I were overseas visiting our daughter, whom we had not seen for five years, I noticed a lump the size of an egg toward the middle part of her head, but we did not discuss it.

It is with a sincere desire to acknowledge the power of our Father-Mother God that I bear witness not only to some of the healings but to the regeneration which Christian Science has brought to me. I have tested its healing efficacy in many types of human experience, and a complete healing or a reformation of thought has always resulted from my seeking a better understanding of God and man's relationship to Him.

Many years ago I began to attend a Christian Science church, not through any desire of my own, but merely to accompany my mother, who had been beautifully healed by spiritual means of an intestinal obstruction for which she had been about to undergo surgery. I myself, in spite of my mother's quick and permanent healing, did not immediately accept Science; in fact, there was, unaccountably, considerable antagonism toward it in my thought.

One day at work I was stricken with severe abdominal pain. I tried to overcome it through my own prayer but was not successful right away; so I managed to telephone a Christian Science practitioner to ask for help.

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, it became obvious that my family and I needed a larger place in which to live. At the time there was a housing shortage, and finding another home, large or small, seemed an impossibility.

" God exists now. He is right here with you to help you.

I am grateful for the friend who introduced our family to the teachings of Christian Science and for the resulting healing of my mother, who, suffering from a complication of diseases, had reached a stage when medication could bring no relief, and an operation was impossible owing to a heart condition. With the prayers of a practitioner, she was restored to normal health within two weeks.

For many years now my husband and I have experienced a continual unfoldment of good through an understanding of God's love gained from our study of Christian Science. At the beginning of World War II we shared a rented dwelling with another small family.

My first experience in Christian Science was the healing of sinus trouble, a condition that had bothered me for a number of years. This Science had been presented to me by friends in another town several years prior to this, but I was not ready to accept it at that time.