Testimonies of Healing
Twenty years ago our family was introduced to Christian Science through my brother's instantaneous healing of what was diagnosed as acute appendicitis. This healing came about after one visit by a Christian Science practitioner.
" Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits" ( Ps. 103:2 ).
Many years ago I was given a Christian Science Hymnal. I was indeed happy to receive it, because at that time I did not have the money to buy one.
With the Psalmist I sing ( Ps. 9:1 ), "I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart.
In spite of very earnest efforts in early life to gain salvation, all I ever gleaned from the Bible was this statement in the first two verses of Genesis: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
When I was a child at boarding school, I was taken ill with what the doctors diagnosed as a serious disease of the heart. I was sent home and from that time was not allowed to run about, play games, swim, dance, or in any other way exert myself.
When Christian Science was first presented to me in 1907, I had no inclination to study it, although I was in need of greater physical strength. However, a number of years later I was ready to accept the truth taught by Mary Baker Eddy in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Before I came into Christian Science my health was precarious, and I was a prey to discouragement. I had been under the care of doctors, one of whom told me that I was not responsive to medicine.
It is with a deep sense of love and joy that I express my gratitude to God for His protection and ever-available healing power. Through the study of Christian Science, we know that God is always present and all-harmonious and that man, God's idea, cannot be touched by an accident or a discordant condition of any kind.
Over twenty years ago I was greatly impressed by seeing a small boy quickly and completely healed of pneumonia through Christian Science treatment. At the first opportunity I bought the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.