Testimonies of Healing
Several years ago I experienced a healing from which I learned many lessons, one of them being the meaning of moral courage. The experience also illustrated for me the need of daily, consecrated, prayerful work.
Christian Science teaches that God constantly guides and governs man, His spiritual offspring. My life is filled with evidence that this is true, and I am deeply grateful.
I have been a student of Christian Science since I was a child and have not only experienced but witnessed many healings brought about by the application of this religion. When eight years old I jumped off a chair on which I had been standing and fell, hitting the floor with my chin.
One summer some sixteen years ago, although I had been experiencing a form of heart trouble the previous winter and spring, I took a trip out West to visit my daughter and her family. I had suffered from this condition on and off for many years, and my fear of attacks had never been allayed.
On looking back through the years, I remember that my first healing in Christian Science was the result of the realization of the great truth that God knows no evil, sin, disease, or death. I was asking a practitioner about this, and she assured me that it was so; but I said, "You limit God, who must know everything if He is all-knowing and all-powerful.
My heart is full of gratitude for the fact that I was led to become a student of Christian Science. One day a relative visiting in our home gave me my first insight into it and kindly lent me the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.
As a child I had a great fear of God because I had been led to believe that He sent evil as a punishment for our sins. When I was twenty a sister came home from a distant city bringing the first word I had ever had of Christian Science.
Soon after becoming interested in Christian Science, I accepted what seemed to be an unusually good secretarial position. However, my first day at the office presented a discouraging picture.
One of my greatest blessings is that I have never known any other religion than Christian Science. As I look back on my childhood, I recall one incident when a sister and I were grinding meat in a grinder.
When my wife and I first heard of Christian Science nearly thirty years ago, we were living over twelve miles from the nearest place in which it was being studied and demonstrated. Rumors reached us that people who had been considered incurable were being healed, and my wife decided to go on horseback to the place to learn more about this new method and to talk with the Christian Science practitioner who had recently come there.