Testimonies of Healing
Some time ago I was suffering from what appeared to be a hopeless case of dropsy. A Christian Science practitioner was called upon and gave much time, with love unlimited, to help me see that our primary concern is not to heal a sick body, but rather to replace a misconception about man with the truth of his necessary perfection as the image and likeness of God.
Over a period of thirty years I have had many physical healings, for which I am grateful, through the study and application of Christian Science. Business difficulties have been solved.
Christian Science was offered to my father by his brother, and how hungrily he drank in every word! The way that he accepted and loved this Science has been an inspiration to me through trying times. We were brought up thinking of health instead of sickness, of love instead of hate, of gratitude instead of ingratitude.
The most cherished and indelible memory of my childhood is my mother's healing through Christian Science. She had been ill four years.
From a very early age our son had expressed a desire for a career at sea. With this in mind, we entered him for a nautical college.
I turned to Christian Science for answers to the many questions about life and God which had bothered me very much even when I was a child. My desire to learn more of God and life and truth led to much self-examination and investigation into many different creeds.
One of the first healings I experienced in Christian Science occurred when I sprained my ankle. I had done this frequently for years, and the sprain was always accompanied by pain and swelling.
If anyone had told me six years ago what was in store for me and my family and how it would be accomplished, I should never have believed him. I had demonstrated many times that man's true health is spiritual, and I had had many proofs that man's true supply comes from God; but during my three-year term as a Reader in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, which was followed by my husband's term as a Reader, I gained such a conviction of what real happiness is that I am certain I have found the way of Life.
When Christian Science was presented to me I was in a very confused state of mind resulting from the breaking up of my marriage and my home. Some friends who were regular attendants at the Sunday services and Wednesday testimony meetings of a Church of Christ, Scientist, told me about the blessings of their religion.
" These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. " This passage from Revelation (7: 14) may well be applied to a vast number of people, including myself, who have found deliverance from difficulties, both physical and mental, through the teachings of Christian Science.