Testimonies of Healing
For some years I suffered from a spinal curvature, which often caused fatiguing pain but which never completely incapacitated me. After the birth of our third child, however, I twisted the spine and suffered a physical collapse.
One of the hymns in our Christian Science Hymnal reminds us ( No. 139 ), "Give of your heart's rich overflow.
I am very grateful to have been raised in a Christian Science home, where I was taught always to trust God to meet every need. In the year 1894 my father came into Christian Science with my grandfather, who was instantaneously healed of lameness and of the need of wearing glasses, although he had been told that he could never go without them.
Wearying of old theological beliefs and searching for a more satisfactory religion, my parents became students of Christian Science in my early childhood. Later my mother became a practitioner and with my father held the first Christian Science services in our community.
Since I have had the privilege of knowing about Christian Science my life has completely changed. The knowledge of this Science and its application have opened for me a door to mental and physical freedom.
How happy I am to be a Christian Scientist! It means everything to me to have a religion that I can put to daily use. From the age of three until I was twenty I had the privilege of being taught this practical way of life in the Christian Science Sunday School.
When properly applied, Christian Science has met all my needs. I have seen blood poisoning and colds healed quickly and dislocated bones returned to their normal position while the suffering one was talking to a practitioner.
Christian Science was introduced into our family in the 1880's. Before his marriage my father lived in Boston, Massachusetts, for a time, and on several occasions he heard Mary Baker Eddy preach in Chickering Hall.
" Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness" ( Ps.
For over thirty years Christian Science has met my every need, and I feel that I should no longer withhold my grateful testimony of the benefits and healings I have received from its teachings. I have learned that only radical reliance on God brings healing and fulfills the Biblical promise ( John 8:31, 32 ), "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.