Testimonies of Healing

The acknowledgment of our blessings is so much a part of Christian Science that I feel impelled to tell of the help it has been to me. When I was widowed and left with a small son to raise, I returned to my parents' home.

When I read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, for the first time, I was greatly impressed by the allegory of the court case, given on pages 430-442. A few years later, while in a foreign country, I had an opportunity to prove the efficacy and logic of this Science during the tangles of a lawsuit.

I would like to express my sincere thanks to God for Christian Science and for the transformation it has brought into my life. When I was quite young, I became a member of an orthodox church.

The first physical healing I witnessed in Christian Science has been a continuous source of spiritual inspiration and joy, for it clearly proved that God is the healer of disease. When my daughter was in kindergarten, she had a severe case of scarlet fever, and many complications followed, including sinus infection and chronic bronchitis.

In 1917, when there was an epidemic of infantile paralysis, I was in great fear for my three children. I then remembered that a friend had told me of Christian Science healings in her family through reading a certain book.

" Thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness" ( Ps. 18:28 ).

I came to recognize the healing power of Christian Science ten years ago when I had a painful muscular trouble and pains in the head. Since childhood I had had great faith in God's goodness, and when I at last realized that of myself I could do nothing, I was led in my extremity to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

Over forty years ago a friend asked me to read the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

My first testimony was published in the Sentinel of August 22, 1936. Since that time I have had many experiences of healing, protection, and supply.

For the past twenty-four years Christian Science has been a blessing and an unfailing guide in my life. As small children my sister and I attended an orthodox Sunday School fairly regularly; then we became uninterested in attending any more.