Testimonies of Healing
Christian Science was introduced into our family in 1904 with the healing of my grandmother. She had suffered from some form of stomach trouble for many years.
I thank God daily for the protection, health, and harmony that have been mine through the study and application of Christian Science during many years. It has indeed been a staff on which to lean.
I began the study of Christian Science after my marriage to a student of this religion. In ten years of married life, the happiness, harmony, and protection that have been a part of our home have been due to the application of the truths that we have learned of God and of man's relationship to Him as revealed in Christian Science.
For some time I have felt an urge to write a testimony about the many physical healings I have experienced as the result of my study and application of Christian Science. My blessings also include protection from accidents, guidance in business matters, employment, and last, but not least, an increasing sense of love among the members of my family.
It is with deep gratitude for Christian Science that I submit this testimony. My mother became interested in Science when I was a young girl.
Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in Science and Health (Pref. , p.
I should like to tell of two experiences especially dear to me, because they are a constant source of inspiration and encouragement. The first experience occurred when I was still quite young in Christian Science.
Christian Science has indeed given me a glorious realization of God's presence, and I can only begin to tell of the blessings which have come to me and my family through its loving ministrations. My mother had suffered from convulsive attacks for about fourteen years.
My first healing was that of a severe colonic condition from which I had suffered for five years. I had been on a very strict diet which, according to physicians, would have to be continued indefinitely.
When I became a student of Christian Science I learned that the expression of gratitude has great healing power. I have found that no matter what the stage of one's understanding of this Science may be, it is the power of God, acknowledged, accepted, and applied, that heals.