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.

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.

It is my desire to express my gratitude publicly for a healing I received a number of years ago. Since reading Mrs.

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.

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.

I am truly grateful for Christian Science. Through the years since I became a student of this wonderful teaching, I have had many healings.