Testimonies of Healing
This era in which we are now living is surely blessed by the lifework of Mary Baker Eddy, the greatest spiritual thinker since Jesus' time. She has left us the fruit of her years of consecrated work, the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, the key that has opened the Bible for thousands of people who can testify to Truth's healing power.
It has been such a blessing to me for so long a time to read the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals that I must prove my gratitude for this channel of good by sharing one or two of my healings with others who are seeking inspiration as I have done for so many years. Christian Science has meant everything to me and mine.
That Christian Science heals I can truly affirm from experience. While I was unloading a five-hundred-pound barrel of oil from a trailer truck, the barrel slipped and crashed against the door of the truck.
Such great gratitude fills my thought when I realize what Christian Science has done for me and my children that I want to share my happiness in the hope of helping someone who needs help. It was nineteen years ago that curiosity led me to a Church of Christ, Scientist, and from the first I was overjoyed with its teachings.
My heart overflows with gratitude for the good that God is giving to individuals and the world through Christian Science. Even a small understanding of Christian Science is often adequate to meet a problem with swift and certain results if applied with earnestness, integrity, selflessness, and humility.
When one owes his very being to the demonstration of God's presence and power, how near one feels to the all-encompassing Father-Mother Love! After my mother had lost two of her first three children at birth, she was told by a physician that she ought never to have another child, since it might mean losing her own life. Although my father was not at that time a student of Christian Science, he advised my mother to go for help to a Christian Science practitioner.
In the Christian Science Hymnal is a hymn entitled "Heavenward" ( No. 136 ).
It is with sincere gratitude for Christian Science that I write this testimony for the periodicals, which, through the faithful workers in charge, reach us wherever we live. For a period of nearly sixty years I have been a student of Christian Science.
Words can never express my gratitude and joy that God led me to the study of our wonderful, practical religion. I can say in the words of one of our hymns (Christian Science Hymnal, No.
We read in Psalms ( 94:17 ), "Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. " How grateful I am for all the inspiration and guidance I have received through the study of Christian Science! Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.