Testimonies of Healing
My heart overflows with gratitude to God, as well as to Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, and to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for the manifold blessings bestowed upon me and mine for many years through the healing and regenerating ministry of Christian Science. The blessing of Christian Science came to me at a very early age when my mother, a pioneer student, enrolled me in the Christian Science Sunday School.
It is with sincere gratitude that I wish to tell of an experience I had about three years ago. I had been to visit a friend.
In the early part of 1954 I was appointed executrix of a small estate. As my task appeared to be rather complicated, I visited an attorney who was acquainted with the case.
When I was a child I had the privilege of attending a Christian Science Sunday School. Later I drifted away from Science, but I shall always be grateful for the excellent grounding in its teachings which I received in Sunday School, for they stood by me and helped me in many ways during World War II.
" God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. " So wrote Paul in II Corinthians ( 9:8 ), and the truth of his words has been proved to me many times in my own experience.
Although I have been a student of Christian Science but a comparatively short time, I feel that I should give my expression of gratitude for all the good which has unfolded to me through Christian Science. I hope that my experiences will help and encourage others.
It is my great desire to express in this way my gratitude for all the help I receive through the study of Christian Science and for all the healings I have experienced, not only of illness but of other difficulties as well. I do not see now how I could ever live without Christian Science.
Christian Science has given me more than grateful words can ever express. It has replaced sorrow with boundless joy, great fear with a deep-toned confidence in God's constant, loving care; and false traits of character have been replaced with spiritual qualities.
" Attempt nothing without God's help. " So counsels our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 197 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany.
In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy makes it very clear that evil, including all disease, is lawless and impotent. I have occasion to be grateful for this revelation, for it has been of help to me in times of difficulty.