Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.