Testimonies of Healing

I should like to express my gratitude for the privilege of serving in a Christian Science Sunday School and to tell how an incident related in one of the lessons helped in the healing of a critical business situation. One Sunday morning I asked a class of ten-to-twelve-year-old children, "Why do we come to Sunday School?" With very little hesitation one of the boys replied, "To learn of God.

For many years I had been a medical nurse. As I read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, dark images of disease were removed from thought, and the glorious light of the freedom of the sons of God replaced the false theological belief that God was testing me.

I shall never cease to be grateful to the friend who sent me a gift subscription for The Christian Science Monitor . I had been in a sanatorium for a long time under treatment for tuberculosis.

Christian Science was introduced to our family when my father was healed of blood poisoning so severe that the doctor said his leg must be amputated. This healing took place when I was eight years old and was the beginning of a new way of life for us.

During childhood years it was necessary for me to seek refuge in many different homes. After I had completed the grade schools, I was directed to a home where the parents of a family of four children were students of Christian Science.

Christian Science came to our family at a time of great business and financial stress during the early years of the Second World War. My husband was endeavoring to establish himself in his profession, but was finding it difficult to do so.

For many years Christian Science has brought much good into my experience, and I wish to express my deep gratitude for it. It was an indispensable help to me when I was rearing my three children, and it is enabling me to help with the problems of my grandchildren.

Through the study of Christian Science, I have had many wonderful proofs of the omnipresence and omnipotence of Truth. These have included healings of broken bones on two occasions, a discordant ear condition, protection for myself and others in a train wreck, and demonstrations of the power of spiritual understanding to provide a home and supply.

Soon after I became a student of Christian Science, I began to have a desire to give a testimony at a Wednesday evening meeting in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, in order to express my gratitude for all the blessings that had come to me. This seemed almost impossible, because I had had since early childhood an intense fear of public speaking.

One day my brother-in-law and I were discussing religion and our respective concepts of God. He spoke of God as Christian Scientists understand Him.