Testimonies of Healing
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.
Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health ( Pref. , p.
" Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul" ( Ps. 66:16 ).
It is quite impossible fully to express my gratitude to God for our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, and for our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, through whose untiring efforts Christian Science was given to a waiting world. There have been numerous healings in our family when we have turned to God for guidance as we are taught to do in Christian Science.
I found my way to Christian Science, as it were, through the back door. My wife became interested in it for relief from physical problems which were troubling her.
When I was a small child, my mother was healed in Christian Science of a severe nervous illness which followed the passing of my father. She became an earnest student, and I had the privilege of attending the Christian Science Sunday School until I reached the age of twenty.
Although my husband was a Christian Scientist and had had two outstanding healings of conditions which had been declared incurable, I had felt no real urge to investigate Christian Science until after our second daughter was born. At one time she became ill with a severe cold, which fast developed into croup.