Testimonies of Healing
When visiting another city on business, I met a friend who asked me to go with him to church that evening. It was a Wednesday; and I thought it a strange invitation, for I had always associated church services with Sundays.
" Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more. " These words by our beloved Leader, Mrs.
I should like to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has meant to me. It has been my only physician since early childhood; and through the application of its teachings, I have been healed of every physical difficulty with which I have been confronted.
" The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage" ( Ps. 16:6 ).
As a child I was not satisfied with half measures. I had to get to the bottom of things, and at an early age I began to inquire into the meaning of life and became a restless seeker for truth and light.
In the book of Psalms we are told many times to bless or praise the Lord, to sing and give thanks unto Him. It is in the spirit of the Psalmist's counsel that I should like to express my thanks to God—God as I have learned to know Him through the study of Christian Science.
Through the study and application of Christian Science, many opportunities are provided to emulate the healing power of the master Metaphysician, Christ Jesus. Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us (Science and Health, p.
With a deep sense of gratitude to God for the protection which I have enjoyed throughout the years, I wish to give this testimony of the healing power of Truth as taught by our Master, Christ Jesus, and elucidated by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " One winter day I thought it advisable to run the car for a while in a closed garage before taking it out.
Christian Science was introduced to our family when my mother was healed of a serious nervous breakdown. My life has been filled to overflowing with blessings due to the application of this Science.
It has been twenty-one years since my testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel , and I feel it is again time to express gratitude to our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. Her clear, spiritual reflection of God, divine Principle, is making it possible for mankind to awaken to the truth and thus be freed from the darkness of material beliefs.