Testimonies of Healing

A number of years ago I was stricken with a serious nervous condition. It grew worse, and a relative who was a student of Christian Science prevailed upon me to try this Science.

Over forty years ago I began the study of Christian Science, and since then I have relied on it exclusively for physical healing and for other help in times of need. At the time I began my study of it, I was suffering from a severe nervous breakdown and was very unhappy.

Before I began reading the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, the whole world seemed a revolutionary place that held no niche for me. I went to orthodox Sunday Schools and joined three different denominations, always hoping to find the Comforter.

Although I was reared in Christian Science, I had to accept it for myself. As I grew toward maturity, this Science proved to be the only answer to my problems.

With a deep sense of gratitude and a desire to help others, I should like to share the healing of abscessed teeth, which took place through my study of Science and Health and the other writings of our Leader. When a sense of pain and soreness presented itself and I was able to eat only soft foods, I asked myself, "Am I, or am I not, a Christian Scientist?" This was the answer: "Now is the opportunity to prove that I am truly a Christian Scientist.

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.