Testimonies of Healing

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (Science and Health, p. 62 ), "The entire education of children should be such as to form habits of obedience to the moral and spiritual law, with which the child can meet and master the belief in so-called physical laws, a belief which breeds disease.

Before I began the study of Christian Science, discouragement bordering on despair had taken possession of my thinking. I was compelled to search for a better way of meeting family and personal problems than the one I had been pursuing.

From childhood I had been afflicted with tuberculosis of the lungs and had spent most of my time in a sanatorium. By the time I had reached womanhood, the disease had spread to the bowels.

About 1954 a small growth appeared on my eyelid. Although I had been brought up in Christian Science since early childhood, I thought it would be simpler to go to a dermatologist and have it cauterized than to have it dissolved with the aid of Christian Science.

I was introduced to Christian Science through the healing of my mother of headaches. However, it was not until several years later that I took up the study of this Science.

My earnest study of Christian Science began because of my desire to support and co-operate with another member of the family who had turned to this truth as a last resort for healing. After about four years of diligent study and persistent application of Christian Science, she was completely healed.

Christian Science was introduced to me at a time when everything in this world seemed dark. I felt there was nothing worth living for, and each night I wished there might not be another day.

Christian Science is a religion of joy, and I am so very grateful for the change it has made in my life. Resentment, hate, rebellion, have been overcome through its study and with the help of Christian Science practitioners.

Since the publication of my previous testimony in the Journal , May, 1934, our family has received many blessings through the application of the truths of Christian Science in the way of healings of so-called children's diseases, broken bones, scarlet fever, and stammering. Home and business problems have also been solved.

When I was a young girl, my home was very unhappy, and suddenly my mother, sister, and I were left to take care of ourselves. For some years I resented this separation, and I felt I had been deprived of a father's care and protection.