Testimonies of Healing
I am very grateful for the freedom which the study and application of Christian Science have brought into my life. About a month after I began reading the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.
When Christian Science was first brought to my attention, I was in dire need of help. I had been away from home attending a university, but had been forced to leave because of a nervous condition which resulted in run-down health.
When our first son was born, healthy and strong, the doctor in attendance exclaimed, "Oh, I thought that baby would not be alive!" The Christian Science nurse had previously been a medical nurse, and she later explained that a condition had been manifested, which, according to medical science, results in the death of an infant. The Christian Science practitioner who was helping me was in a city fifteen miles away.
" Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy" ( Ps. 107:2 ).
When quite a young woman and a comparatively new student of Christian Science, I married. With this partnership I accepted the responsibility of being a stepmother to four small boys.
For seven years prior to coming into Christian Science, I suffered from a severe back injury which had left me a partial invalid. To this distressing condition was added colitis, and I was placed on a stringent diet for two years.
About eighteen years ago my piano teacher, who was a Christian Scientist, recommended that I read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. This teacher had been very good to me; so to please her I obtained a copy and began reading it.
Many times in my experience it has been proved that "man's extremity is God's opportunity. " One such time was in 1918 when I was stricken with influenza while on a visit to a neighboring city.
Accompanying my gratitude for Christian Science is a compelling desire to share two experiences that established for me the certainty of the healing power of Christian Science and clarified the oneness of God as Mind. Having been graduated from the nursing school of a large hospital in New York, I was given the position of supervisor of its operating rooms.
" Let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely" ( Rev.