Testimonies of Healing

I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy with the desire to help our son, who was in ill-health. I was reading the chapter on Christian Science Practice, and when I got to the allegorical trial, I became so absorbed in it that I forgot all about time and read into the early hours of the morning.

I want to share with those who seem to be dwelling in the valley of despair an account of the joy, health, and freedom which have come to me through the study of Christian Science. Prior to my study of this Science, I was always sickly, and I suffered from great fear, which made it impossible for me to be at peace with myself or with anybody around me.

I have been so blessed and encouraged through reading testimonies of Christian Science healing in our periodicals that I feel I should share with others some of the healings I have experienced in the past five years since taking up the study of this Science. My healings include those of constipation, arthritis so severe I had not slept lying down for eighteen months, diabetes, ptomaine poisoning, overweight, and many others.

At this time I should like to express my gratitude to God for the Holy Bible and for Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, of whom God said ( Matt. 3:17 ), "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mrs. Eddy says ( p.

I should like to express gratitude to God for Christian Science and for the freedom that it has brought into my life. As a young boy I attended a Christian Science Sunday School occasionally, but it was not until 1950 that I really became interested in Christian Science and started going to church.

I became interested in Christian Science through another member of my family, and after about three months of earnestly reading Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, I found that I was completely healed of colitis, a condition that had troubled me for many years.

A few years ago, because of ill-health, my husband had to give up his business. He entered a Christian Science House where he subsequently received his healing.

My gratitude to God knows no bounds. Having been reared in Christian Science, I have not had any experience with another religion.

The Bible teaches that God gives us "richly all things to enjoy" ( I Tim. 6:17 ).