Testimonies of Healing
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.
I have expressed my gratitude for Christian Science vocally many times at Wednesday evening meetings in Churches of Christ, Scientist, and at testimony meetings held by students of Science in the armed forces. It is now time that I share my experience through our periodicals.
" Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies" ( Ps. 103:2-4 ).
As a child my mother made friends with a little girl who later went to live in Western Australia. About the year 1916 this friend returned on a visit and in a long and earnest conversation told my mother that she had been healed through Christian Science of a severe case of consumption.
" The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light" ( Matt. 6:22 ).
" Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more. " This arresting admonition written by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 3 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" has awakened me to the importance of expressing my gratitude for all the benefits our family has received for many years through the study and application of Christian Science.