Testimonies of Healing

I should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for all the good that has come to me and my family through the application of its truths. I am very grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church and for class instruction.

In the King James Version of the Bible is this glorious promise: "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" ( Rev. 21:4 ).

The teachings of Christian Science have been a guiding and sustaining influence to me and my family for many years. During my early school years, my eyes, which were badly crossed, were healed through the application of our conviction that all human needs are met when the truth is faithfully applied.

As a child I learned to know the Bible well, and I often read from it. However, no one could answer the questions which arose in my thought about its contents, and so I became more and more convinced that this was a very puzzling book.

At the age of about twelve, after I had attended a Christian Science Sunday School only a few times as a visitor, I was able to heal myself in three hours of the effects of running my hand through a washing machine wringer. Although the hand became swollen and discolored, I was unafraid and remembered that the Sunday School teacher had said that God is Love.

I shall always be grateful and indebted to a friend who many years ago said to me, "You are ready for Christian Science. " This was the first time I had ever heard these words.

Before becoming interested in Christian Science many years ago, I had been confined to my bed for the greater part of the previous year with a serious hip disease and an organic trouble for which the physicians had said an operation would be necessary. At this time I jokingly remarked to my husband that I believed I would try Christian Science, although I knew nothing about it, and was acquainted with only one person, a neighbor, who was interested in it.

I shall always be grateful for the healings and the reformation of character which I experienced in the early years of my study of Christian Science. My first healing came about through the prayerful work done by a devout student of Christian Science who was called to my bedside at a time when I was delirious with fever during an epidemic of influenza.

I shall never cease to be grateful for the privileges of growing up in a home where Christian Science was practiced and of attending a branch church Sunday School until I was twenty. The knowledge I gained of Truth during those early years has stood me in good stead during the establishment of my own home and family.

Several years ago, while our elder daughter was practicing a dance she was learning at school, she fell, and we heard a loud snap in one of her feet. She was unable to put any weight on the foot and expressed the fear that a bone was broken.