Testimonies of Healing
In the business to which I devote much of my time it is necessary for me to scan many newspapers. In doing so one day I read an article telling of movie actors and actresses who were ill with influenza.
I wish to express my unbounded gratitude for the saving grace and power of the Christ, Truth, as explained and made practicable in Christian Science and to testify to the solving of many problems when I have persistently and properly applied its unerring rules. For forty years I have not resorted to medicine of any kind.
Although I did not feel in need of physical healing when I began to study Christian Science about seven years ago, I was in a state of great unrest and unhappiness. I had always been weak and delicate and had had many serious illnesses.
Five years ago my husband and I were living in a log cabin in southern Indiana. We had abandoned our college careers because they did not answer our questions about life, and we were now, by contrast, trying to find meaning in a simple existence close to nature.
My first healing in Christian Science was a corroboration of the efficacy of confiding all to God. My early experience had been a succession of surgical operations, and I had also suffered injuries as the result of a fall of twenty-three feet to a concrete floor.
In 1945 a dear friend in whose presence I said that I should like to be freed from selfishness handed me the Christian Science textbook by Mrs. Eddy.
As a Christian Scientist of the second generation, I am profoundly grateful for Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and for her revelation of it to this age.
Shortly after I was married, I found myself very much in need of a cure for hay fever, which had plagued me for several summers. Remedies I had used gave me no relief.
Through the door of Christian Science I walked into a whole new experience. I had a happy childhood and was always a sincere student of the Bible and the teachings of an orthodox church.
Through the years I have had many healings not only of physical difficulties, but of faults of disposition, lack, and a sense of separation. When our son was a baby, my husband and I took a cottage at a beach hotel.