Testimonies of Healing

In 1940 I married a Christian Scientist. I was greatly impressed with the serenity and calm which she expressed, but I failed to associate these qualities with Christian Science until about two years later when we were expecting our first child.

Because I was reared in Christian Science, I have had blessings from this wonderful truth, and now our children too are finding for themselves that the truth heals and blesses them. I should like to tell of an experience I had over seven years ago.

About ten years ago I became interested in Christian Science, the most important event in my life. I had known of Christian Science for several years and had tried to read the textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, but was not ready to receive this great truth; so finally I put the book aside, not in opposition but in puzzlement.

I wish to express gratitude for many blessings received through the study of Christian Science and to tell of an experience we had when our children were small. We were living in the country, and late one Sunday afternoon, as was our custom, my husband, our four children, and I went to the home of my mother, who lived nearby.

"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to–day is big with blessings," writes Mrs. Eddy in the Preface to Science and Health ( p.

When I was twelve years of age, my parents enrolled my brother, sister, and me in a Christian Science Sunday School. I can remember how I loved Christian Science from my first acquaintance with its teachings.

Over thirty–five years ago, while in medical practice, I was first awakened to the power of spiritual healing when I saw a patient of mine healed of what my colleagues and I had pronounced an inoperable and incurable cancer. The patient had had a cancer of the breast removed about a year previously, but the condition had spread, and our medical prognosis gave her only a few weeks to live.

In the past few years great changes have come into my experience. I left a job of long standing and accepted what I considered a God-given opportunity to visit New England.

From babyhood I suffered from sleeplessness, and various medical treatments were tried in an endeavor to cure this condition, but without success. Shortly after commencing to attend the Christian Science Sunday School, I realized that I did not need to suffer from this difficulty, because, as I learned there, God is the only creator and all that He created is good; therefore whatever is not good was never made and has no reality.

That "man's extremity is God's opportunity" was brought to me very forcibly several years ago. My wife and three children were all active Christian Scientists; and while I had an increasing desire for church membership, I could not understand why I could not continue to use tobacco and alcohol.