Testimonies of Healing

When I was five years old I asked my mother, "Why don't we heal the sick as Jesus has told us to do?" My mother's explanation that spiritual healing was only for the time of Jesus and his disciples was something I could not accept. Later, at the age of twelve, I heard a doctor laugh at a woman who, he said, thought the sick could be healed by prayer.

A number of years ago, when a loved one passed on, I turned to Christian Science and found a great sense of peace and love. A very dear friend introduced me to this wonderful and practical religion.

When my mother was a young married woman, she became ill with a serious internal disorder. The doctor attending her stated that an operation was essential.

The home in which I was reared was filled with deep religious faith, and my early memories are of church and prayer. This faith was somewhat shaken, however, by constant illness and a feeling of inadequacy during my early married life, and I found myself asking if there was a God.

In the summer of 1958 I had an attack of shingles. I was not fearful and began to do prayerful work for myself, as we learn to do in Christian Science.

A few years after my graduation as a medical nurse, I used to visit the home of a friend whose parents expressed so much love and consideration for others that I was curious regarding their religion. I learned that they were students of Christian Science.

Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health ( p.

" The 'still, small voice' of scientific thought reaches over continent and ocean to the globe's remotest bound," writes Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 559 of Science and Health.

I should like to tell of how I was lifted out of a state of poverty, acute unhappiness, and hopelessness into one of confidence, gratitude, joy, and abundant supply. When my marriage broke up, I was fortunate in being able to make my home with my mother, because I had a baby daughter, and I was expecting a second child.

When I was young, a dentist predicted that my teeth would grow in crookedly, but the prayers of my parents in Christian Science counteracted the difficulty, and my teeth grew in straight. At about the same time a painful condition which had persisted for some time on the sole of one of my feet was healed one day while I was visiting the friend who had introduced my family to Christian Science.