Testimonies of Healing

Living in Basutoland I have few opportunities for attending a Christian Science church and very few contacts with Christian Scientists. I was therefore delighted to receive from Johannesburg an invitation to hear a tape recording of a Tuesday Evening Meeting which had been held in the Extension of The Mother Church at Annual Meeting time and also to see the film entitled "The Mother Church in Action.

When I was a child, I had what was said to be inherited lung trouble, and each winter I went through one or more periods of illness, pronounced frequently pneumonia, often double pneumonia. One such illness which was especially serious occurred soon after my mother and I had begun to study Christian Science, and I was healed through our efforts to prove this religion's healing power.

Many years ago, before I knew anything of Christian Science, I had a throat condition which had persisted for about four years, and it appeared that I was losing my voice. I had visited several throat specialists, but they could not help me.

" A little child shall lead them," we read in Isaiah (11:6) . My introduction to Christian Science came through our two sons' attending Sunday School with some neighboring children.

My parents were Christian Scientists, and I attended a Christian Science Sunday School until I went to boarding school. There I dropped away from Science and ignored it for many years.

Through the years, I have experienced many healings as a result of the application of Christian Science, for which I am profoundly grateful. Some were immediate, some required much persistence, some came about through my own efforts, and some took place with the help of Christian Science practitioners.

I am deeply grateful for the conviction that Christian Science heals. I have witnessed many proofs of the protecting and healing power of God, divine Mind, including the overcoming of infection, influenza, scarlet fever, grief, nervousness, and headaches.

I was introduced to Christian Science over thirty years ago by the chief of the department in which I worked, and I shall always be grateful to him and his family for the continued kindness and interest that were shown to me. I am grateful too for the purity of Mrs.

Christian Science was presented to my family when I was a young girl and at a time when the sudden severe illness of a parent brought sad change and adjustment to a home previously knowing only happiness and freedom. The Christly logic and comfort of this teaching were felt somewhat; but our deep despondency seemed to prevent real awakening to the precious relief at hand.

From the age of fifteen I was a magnet for all sorts of inharmony, sickness, and sin. This attraction increased to such an extent that a few years ago things had reached the point where death seemed to me the only way out of my misery.