Testimonies of Healing
" Miserable comforters are ye all" ( Job 16:2 ). This statement by Job to his well-meaning friends who sought to help him was read to me at the time of the loss of a loved one.
I first heard of Christian Science as a child. My mother was healed of tuberculosis of the bone after her case had been pronounced hopeless by medical physicians.
The time has come when I can no longer delay expressing my gratitude to God through the Christian Science periodicals for a healing which occurred nearly thirty years ago. When our baby son was about nine days old, a little red spot appeared on his nose.
While I was a student at college, I learned the value of daily study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly . During a Christmas vacation I was tobogganing with friends, and we hit an obstacle which caused a bad spill.
Whenever I hear the account of the healing of the lame man "at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful," as recorded in the Bible ( Acts 3:1-8 ), I am reminded of a healing I had of a ruptured thigh muscle, sustained during a football match some years before World War II. Long periods of rest from training brought some improvement, but the weakness soon reappeared when sport was resumed.
My heart is overflowing with gratitude for the precious gift of Christian Science. I became acquainted with it as a small child when I had an extreme case of diphtheria.
Because of the love I have for Christian Science, the deep devotion I feel toward our Cause, and the earnest desire I have to be a genuine Christian Scientist, I give this written testimony. Science came into my life at an early age.
It is ten years since a testimony of mine was published, and since then we have had many more proofs of God's care. At the end of World War II, we had little income, as our farm was needed for a housing estate.
" Gratitude is much more than a verbal expression of thanks. Action expresses more gratitude than speech.
In the Bible we read ( Ps. 105:1 ), "O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.