Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science has brought so much happiness and joy into my experience that I feel I must share some of it with others. I felt a lack of genuine friendship among the members of the church in which I was reared, and at school I felt the same thing.

Christian Science first came to my attention when I was thirteen. Mother sent my brother, two sisters, and me to the Christian Science Sunday School, for, as she said, "It is close by, and the training will be good for all of you.

" Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized," writes Mrs. Eddy on page 167 of Science and Health.

A number of years ago my husband and I were in a difficult and seemingly hopeless situation resulting from poor health, inharmonious working conditions, and financial reverses. Several times I had undergone surgery, and my husband had been under medical treatment, but to no avail, and he was no longer able to work at his trade.

It is my hope that I may impart to others through this testimony the sense of joyousness and peace that is mine as the result of studying Christian Science. My interest in Science began when I was enrolled in the Christian Science Sunday School.

My first healing in Christian Science, which was that of a severe eye infection, came through the help of a practitioner. I had been having regular treatments from an eye specialist for about four months.

I did not begin to study Christian Science for physical healing, but I did so because I liked what I saw of this religion as applied by a Christian Science practitioner in whose home I lived for several years soon after leaving college. My first reading of Science and Health by Mrs.

Christian Science was introduced into our home when I was very young, and since that period I have seen healings in the family of so-called children's ailments, influenza, broken bones, sciatica, asthma, and many other conditions. Financial limitations have also been overcome.

Though my husband and I had reared a family of three children in Christian Science, had witnessed many healings, and had had evidences of God's bounty, which enabled us to maintain the children in colleges away from home all at the same time, still I was overwhelmed with a sense of loss and loneliness when my husband passed on and within a short period of time the children married. My usefulness seemed to have come to an end despite the fact that I kept busy by going to business and engaging in church activity.

When I started studying Christian Science I was buying a house and was without employment. I was without income or capital to pay mounting bills.