Testimonies of Healing
In gratitude for numerous healings I have enjoyed through the study and application of Christian Science and in appreciation of the spiritual growth which has come through these experiences, I humbly submit this testimony. In our ranch home we have a concrete basement which is reached through a trap door and a heavy staircase.
The testimonies in our periodicals have been of much help to me over the years, and therefore I should like to share an account of one of the many healings that I have experienced through the application of Christian Science. One morning about five years ago I was suddenly stricken with a pain so severe at the back of my neck that I was forced to go to bed.
Some years ago I became aware of an internal growth which caused extreme fear on my part. I had been a student of Christian Science for a short time; so I consulted a practitioner.
In gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me during many years, I am happy to submit this testimony in the hope that it will be of help to others. When I first started to study Christian Science I was suffering from tonsillitis and pernicious anemia, both of which were healed after I read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
More than nineteen hundred years ago a man lame from birth was healed instantly by the spiritual understanding of Peter and John. He went "walking, and leaping, and praising God" ( Acts 3:8 ).
This testimony is gratefully submitted with a sincere desire to be obedient to the Scriptural command ( Prov. 3:27 ), "Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
My testimony to God's all-loving and sustaining care is written in gratitude that I have found in Christian Science the way of light and love. Only after I had passed through great tribulations and was living in a foreign country did I accept this Science, and in doing so I found the solution to many problems.
Since coming into Christian Science about fifteen years ago, I have had many proofs of its healing power. Words are inadequate to express my gratitude to God for His goodness as revealed to me through the study and application of this Science.
Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us in the Manual of The Mother Church ( Art. XVII, Sect.
The time has come when I can no longer withhold my written expression of gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy states ( p.