Testimonies of Healing

Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, slates in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 262 ), "Dear readers, our Journal is designed to bring health and happiness to all households wherein it is permitted to enter, and to confer increased power to be good and to do good.

Christian Science came into my experience when I had lost my husband, home, material possessions, health, and joy. Throughout this wilderness experience, although I felt like an empty vessel, I never lost an insatiable thirst for Truth, a great longing to find God.

" Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" ( Matt.

Christian Science was presented to me more than thirty years ago when another member of my family and I were suffering from ivy poisoning. Medical treatment was given, but to no avail.

For the past thirty years, when rightly applied, Christian Science has met my every need. In my family, healings of heart trouble and eye infection have taken place.

Although I was the offspring of Christian parents and grandparents, I myself was an agnostic and very unhappy. About thirty years ago I said to someone in our home, "I believe we are told about God as children are told about Santa Claus, and one day we shall be told that there is no God.

My introduction to Christian Science came one Sunday when we visited a Church of Christ, Scientist, and let our children attend the Sunday School as visitors. The following Sunday we asked the children where they wanted to go.

Christian Science came into my experience at a time when I was in a strange country without money or employment. This situation was all the more difficult because prior to that time I had been living in luxury, although without any religious convictions whatever.

While in my early teens I came to the conclusion that there was no God, so unreasonable and illogical were the concepts of Deity given me by well-meaning friends. To one I stated, "If there is a God, it will have to be proved to me before I accept it.

Christian Science was presented to my family when I was little more than a child and at a time of great unhappiness and difficulty in our home. After a period of their mocking and arguing while the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.