Testimonies of Healing

One day over twenty years ago I became ill at my place of employment and was about to leave for home when a kind friend and colleague asked me if I would like to read something about Christian Science. I agreed to do so, although I could not understand how reading could help me.

With a heart full of joy I wish to acknowledge that for over half a century I have been blessed by God's sustaining power. I have reared my family in Christian Science, and now they in turn are teaching their children the same truth.

Our family has had such effective proof of God's guidance, in addition to physical healings, that I wish to share two of our experiences, which I hope will encourage others to trust in God. About two years ago I flew from our home in New York to a western city to attend my annual association meeting.

Although from infancy I was brought up in Christian Science, it has only been in the last few years that I have realized what a constant help this religion is. Some time ago I traveled with a group which was presenting a summer theater production.

" Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? who can shew forth all his praise?" ( Ps. 106:2 ).

It is always a happy moment when the revealing statement is made, many times by a stranger, "You must be a Christian Scientist!" I am glad to say that I have heard this remark at various times during my business experience. After many years in the sale of steel, I accepted a position in an allied business as a designing engineer and estimator with a consulting engineering firm in which I had worked fourteen years previously for a period of about a year.

At a Wednesday testimony meeting, a student of Christian Science related that another student had asked him why more testimonies of healing from his particular city did not appear in the Christian Science periodicals. The first student replied, "Have you written and submitted yours?" This remark awakened me to the realization that I had had numerous proofs of healing through the application of Christian Science and that I too had been very lax in setting forth my gratitude in writing so that readers of our beloved periodicals could learn of these healings and thereby be encouraged.

I wish to acknowledge my gratitude for the many blessings I have received since I began the study of Christian Science about thirty-five years ago. Early in life I wondered why in time of need my prayers failed to help me.

Reading the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals has meant so very much to me that I should like to add my contribution so that I might aid in encouraging others along the way of perfect peace and happiness. Having been raised in a home where Christian Science was studied and practiced, I had no knowledge of what it was to be without its loving, protecting care.

I should like to tell of how Christian Science helped me as a college student, and I hope that it may be helpful to others who are students. Before I knew anything about this religion, I had taken a college intelligence test, and I had been informed that the results of the examination indicated that I would never be more than an average, or C, student.