Testimonies of Healing

My parents began the study of Christian Science when I was a child, and we experienced many beautiful healings. My mother was wonderfully saved from being electrocuted when, with a wet cloth in her hand and standing on wet ground, she put her hand around a wire clothesline which, unknown to her, was in contact with an electric wire.

My first testimony appeared in a Christian Science Sentinel in 1915 when I was a young student of Christian Science. As I look back over the years since then, I realize how very much I have been blessed and how many healings I have had.

" Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him" ( Matt. 6:8 ).

Christian Science found me at the brink of hopelessness due to ill-health, frustration, confusion, and grief. While alone in a large city, without home, funds, or work, I went to a Sunday evening service at a Church of Christ, Scientist.

When living in an apartment house where laundry work had to be done in the basement in an old-fashioned machine with an electric wringer, I learned that erroneous suggestions should be denied reality as soon as they present themselves. The first time I went to the basement to wash, our son went with me and was helping me to wring the clothes.

As a Navy aviator during the Second World War, I was in command of a large patrol plane and a thirteen-man crew. Before each flight we repeated the Lord's Prayer in unison and read aloud the ninety-first Psalm.

Our family have been healed of many physical conditions, including hemorrhoids, tonsillitis, severe pain, influenza, fever, cuts, burns, sprained ankle, colitis, and constipation. God has been our only physician and Mind our only medicine for more than eight years.

At a time of mental despondency and physical illness, I was told by a kind and sincere physician that he could help me no further and that what I needed was spiritual help. It was thought-provoking to me to have a medically trained specialist tell me that God could do something that he could not do.

How grateful I am to be able to testify to the healing power of Christian Science! My first year as teacher of a first grade class was extremely difficult. With the help of a Christian Science practitioner and of a friend who was also a school teacher, I was able to finish the school term.

Christian Science first came to my attention when as a young woman I was employed in a large city, but I did not take up its study at that time. Later, my mother, a practical nurse, became interested in Christian Science through one of her patients.