Testimonies of Healing

Since taking up the study of Christian Science I have relied upon it for everything. I have had numerous healings, physical, mental, and financial.

For many years the testimonies appearing in our periodicals have been a source of much inspiration and joy, and now I should like to share my own. I have been particularly blessed, because since the age of six I have been a witness that Christian Science is the way of Life.

" God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" ( Ps. 46:1 ).

While suffering from a nervous breakdown, I recalled that an aunt in a distant city had told me of Christian Science. Our family physician said that there was nothing he could do for me and that I would have to give up my work as a chemist for an indefinite time.

Twenty-eight years ago through Christian Science I was instantaneously healed of what appeared to be a fatal case of arsenic poisoning. That healing was followed soon afterward by the instantaneous release from the need to wear glasses and by a quick healing of a fractured ankle.

As a child, I saw my brother healed of bowlegs by Christian Science. The legs were so badly bowed that he could not stand on them.

Having reason to be grateful for Christian Science, I wish to submit this testimony as evidence of my gratitude and with the prayer that it may help others as I have been helped. I was led to Science during the depression of the 1930's.

It is about thirty years since Christian Science came into my life. When my eldest daughter, then a little child, was very ill I consulted a doctor.

One afternoon I was reading a Christian Science periodical when I heard a noise. My small son, then three years of age, had fallen down a steep, narrow stairway to the floor below while on his tricycle.

" Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths" ( Prov.