Testimonies of Healing
Since I retired from the business world, I have taken a series of trips by airplane to foreign countries. Friends say to me periodically: "What! At your age, and traveling alone?" In the first place, I look to God for my strength and my life; matter is not the contributing factor.
It is with a feeling of deep gratitude that I testify to a healing which brought me into Christian Science, the new and wonderful way of Life. Some years ago while I was depending on materia medica, as was the custom of my entire family, a malady was manifested on my body that involved the nerves and skin.
Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes in Science and Health ( p.
This testimony is to express gratitude for the oneness of Mind taught in Christian Science. Several years ago, while studying for a graduate degree, I faced at the end of months of work a comprehensive oral examination that was to be conducted by a committee including my university adviser, the department chairman, and three other professors.
One of the things for which I am most grateful is the inspired meaning of Church which we are taught in Christian Science. During the last few years I have come to realize that, as Mrs.
" The 'divine ear' is not an auditory nerve. It is the all-hearing and all-knowing Mind, to whom each need of man is always known and by whom it will be supplied.
" I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" ( John 10:10 ). These words of Christ Jesus prompt me to write this testimony in the hope that it will help others.
Christian Science found me, a few years after the First World War, ruined financially, suffering badly from neurasthenia and claustrophobia, and a prey to constant fears for the health of our two surviving children. This acute anxiety had been brought on by the passing on of our eldest child.
It is my desire to express my gratitude publicly for a healing I received a number of years ago. Since reading Mrs.
This is a joyful opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to God for Christian Science. In 1927, I became interested in this Science and with the encouragement of a cousin began to study it.