Testimonies of Healing

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.

Over thirty years ago Christian Science was brought to me by a young woman living in the same apartment building in which I lived. I was a very sick woman, having suffered for several years, and I was frightened by the prospect of a major operation.

Christian Science has brought so many blessings into my life and into our home that I wish to thank God through the means of our periodicals. Although my human father passed on before I was born, all sense of having been deprived of a father's love was healed when I learned in Christian Science that God is the only Father of all.

" Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" ( Ps. 119: 105 ).

Before I found Christian Science, a growth appeared on my right ear, and I had it removed through surgery. It was not long before the growth reappeared.

While reading the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, a copy of which was loaned to me by my sister-in-law, I realized that smoking is a form of bondage, and I was freed from the temptation to indulge in it.