Testimonies of Healing

From the age of five I was afflicted with a disease of the lungs that physicians in Europe could not diagnose. By the time I was twenty-seven, they agreed that I could not survive more than five or six years.

It is with heartfelt gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for her wonderful discovery of the absolute healing power of the Christ, Truth, as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus, that I wish to share the first evidence I had that Christian Science is ever available for our use.

About twenty years ago, a skin disorder for which three doctors could offer no cure developed on my hands and feet. A friend told me of Christian Science, and a Christian Science practitioner began to treat me through prayer.

I have had many healings in Christian Science, for which I am grateful. I am especially grateful for the healing of grief after the sudden passing on of my daughter.

When I was quite young, my mother was instantaneously healed of a malignant condition that the doctors had said was beyond their help. This healing came about as a result of my mother's reading a Christian Science Sentinel that had been given to her.

When Christian Science was presented to me in the summer of 1941, I ridiculed it because I thought it to be just a fad. However, by the winter of that year I was receptive to it, and as a sponge soaks up water, I absorbed its teachings.

My first healing in Christian Science came over thirty years ago as a result of the clear, spiritual understanding of a practitioner. I myself knew nothing about this religion.

So many times I have thought of the words of the Christian Science practitioner to whom I first went to have help. She said in effect that if I would really study Christian Science, not only my own health but that of my family would improve, that my husband's business and our supply would increase, and that everything in my life would become more beautiful.

Christian Science has been my only medicine for over thirty years and has never failed me. I have relied entirely on this Science, and the understanding of God it has given me has aided me greatly in rearing three boys and meeting the many needs in my own experience.

For the past twenty-six years Christian Science has been my only physician and has healed every physical problem. It has been the only curative means for mental stress and strain and has given me the peace which passes understanding.