Testimonies of Healing

Although I was suffering from tuberculosis when Christian Science was presented to me, I thought of this Science not as a healing agent, but as an understandable, practical concept of God. I had been hospitalized for about three months, and the doctors had not yet decided what treatment should be given.

The blessings that have come to me and mine as the result of sincere study and application of the truths of Christian Science cannot be counted. With the help of a consecrated practitioner, my son was quickly healed of meningitis.

I have every reason to express great gratitude for the untold riches that Christian Science has poured out to me and for the many healings I have experienced, which include those of unlovely traits of character as well as those of a physical nature. I am also grateful for holy, inspiring hours of spiritual upliftment which we can always experience anew in indescribable beauty and in multifarious forms through the study of the Bible and of the writings of Mary Baker Eddy.

I was in my early teens when Christian Science first came into my life. At that time, I was living with an aunt who was a Christian Scientist, and I was enrolled in the Sunday School, which I attended for several years.

Christian Science has been my only physician and benefactor for about forty-one years and has brought me through many severe trials. Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has given us this loving assurance in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( pp.

When a boy in my teens, I was a member of a Sunday School class in an orthodox church. Each Sunday our teacher selected a chapter from the Bible for us to read aloud.

I have experienced many wonderful healings by depending entirely on God, as we are taught to do in Christian Science. I am humbly grateful to Mary Baker Eddy for sharing this great truth which her love for humanity has made possible.

In the Bible we read ( Eph. 2:19 ), "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us in Science and Health ( p. 66 ), "Trials are proofs of God's care.

Since I was five years old our family has used only Christian Science to meet all its needs. I had the wonderful opportunity of attending a Christian Science Sunday School until I was twenty years old, and now I am teaching in the Sunday School.