Testimonies of Healing

Through the years that I have been a student of Christian Science, I have always been helped and comforted by reading the testimonies in our publications; so with deep gratitude I should like to add my testimony to show how Christian Science has helped me. Never having had a physician or a medical diagnosis in the years that I have been a student of this Science, I have not always known the name of some of the difficulties of which I have been healed.

I wish that every woman who is suffering from difficulties connected with change of life could read this testimony. After several months under Christian Science treatment I received a complete healing of these difficulties, along with such a glorious regeneration of character that I now consider those months as the most fruitful of my whole life.

Although to mortal sense it might appear that my life has been one of numerous trials, in retrospect I realize it has been one filled with proofs of God's love, guidance, and protection. My childhood home was lacking in harmony, wisdom, and daily supply.

My first testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel of December 29, 1934. Now I wish to thank God for the manifold blessings that have come to me since then.

I shall never forget the first time I entered a Christian Science church and felt the sense of peace which came over me. I realized that the people I saw there had something I had not, and I thought that if all they said was true, there was hope for me.

I consider it a privilege to express gratitude for my healing through Christian Science of adhesions of the intestines, which followed an operation for appendicitis. Many physicians, including two noted specialists, had given me up, and the last one said that my time here was but a question of a few weeks.

I have been so blessed in my experience by the application of Christian Science that I must share my heart's overflow in the hope it may help others to see what great good lies right where we are now, revealing itself to the awakened spiritual understanding. I have known Christian Science all my life; I was enrolled in the Sunday School of a branch church at the age of two years and attended regularly until I was twenty.

When Christian Science was first presented to me and a copy of the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, was sent to me, I had no inclination to study it.

Christian Science found me, or reasserted itself in my experience, on the sands of the Fiji Islands about seven years ago. My grandmother had been a devout student of this Science, and as a child I had attended the Christian Science Sunday School.

I wish to express my profound gratitude for Christian Science. I did not become interested in it for physical healing, but because I was looking for a satisfying, practical religion that could be relied upon.