Testimonies of Healing

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.

I started attending the Christian Science Sunday School with neighbors when I was seventeen. From then on for some time I attended fairly regularly, but I did not put first things first.

This testimony is to express my gratitude to God for Christian Science, which was first demonstrated by Christ Jesus and revealed to this age by Mary Baker Eddy. I have had its blessings through many years.

" Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" ( 1 Cor. 6:20 ).

In December, 1936, I found myself at the termination of a partnership, entirely on my own, and with no visible source of supply. All I had was sales ability and excellent connections throughout the province of British Columbia, Canada, with the retail trade in ladies' ready-to-wear clothing.

I should like to express my deep gratitude for the many healings and for the great joy that I have had since coming into Christian Science. My first healing came before I knew anything of this religion except that some relatives who were members of a Church of Christ, Scientist, said that they had had healings through it.