Testimonies of Healing

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.

I have always wanted to express my gratitude to God for guiding me to Christian Science and to the kind friends who took me to church for the first time. As a small child, and until the age of eleven or twelve, I attended an orthodox Sunday School.

When one of our daughters was born, the attending physician discovered that I had a large fibroid tumor which he declared must be removed by surgery if I ever hoped to lead a normal life. Believing there might be a chance that the verdict would be reversed, my husband brought in for consultation three of the finest surgeons in the state, all of whom were of one opinion—that an operation was the only answer to the difficulty, although no promise of my complete recovery could even then be given.

" Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" ( Rev. 3:20 ).

" He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions" ( Ps. 107:20 ).

Through the application of Christian Science, I have had innumerable proofs of God's goodness. Among these proofs have been the successful completion of a graduate course of study in the field of education, opportunities to help children overcome difficult problems in schoolwork and behavior, the return of stolen possessions, and healings of physical discomforts; but what is most important is that a greater sense of inner peace has been found.