Testimonies of Healing
In 1946 I had an operation for a malignant growth which was diagnosed as cancerous. Subsequently I had X-ray therapy and another operation, after which I was told that I now had cancer of the bone.
My gratitude is unbounded for the comfort and protection afforded by the teachings of Christian Science during the hurricanes on the East Coast in the late summer of 1954. Our summer cottage is located in Maine on a large bay near the open ocean.
My heart sings with gratitude for Christian Science, because it is teaching me to leave the dreams of mortal sense for the reality of Soul. Five years ago my husband and I turned to Christian Science when medical science said it could do no more to help him through a nervous breakdown.
" I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us" ( Isa. 63:7 ).
In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes with inspired authority ( p.
Many times I have wanted to express my most grateful thanks to God for Christian Science through writing a testimony for the periodicals. Each time I have allowed myself to be influenced by a sense of inadequacy and of still having too much to learn.
The last physician who examined me before I took up the study of Christian Science stated that because of a heart injury which I had suffered as a small child, I would always be an invalid. Since then I have served twenty-one years as a schoolteacher under yearly contract without missing a day.
Our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us on page 12 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," "Faith in divine Love supplies the ever-present help and now, and gives the power to 'act in the living present. '" I am increasingly grateful to be proving the truth of these words in my daily life, to be proving that as one leaves behind him a belief in a mortal selfhood and strives to claim his birthright of perfection, great good comes to him.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude to God for Christian Science that I write this testimony. When my youngest daughter was five years of age, she had mumps.
Since earliest childhood I have enjoyed the blessings of Christian Science. It has been my only physician and Comforter.