Testimonies of Healing

It was about twenty-five years ago that I took up the study of Christian Science, and it is time that I testified to the numerous blessings which I have received. This simple and practical religion has fulfilled my desire to find the true God.

I am grateful for this means of expressing my gratitude for all that Christian Science is and for all that it does. Although I was brought up in a Christian Science Sunday School I slipped into the byways of material pleasures and began to smoke and drink.

Christian Science came into my experience many years ago at a time of great confusion of thought, poor health, unhappy home life, and business problems. On page 114 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written in referring to Christian Science, "It shows the scientific relation of man to God, disentangles the interlaced ambiguities of being, and sets free the imprisoned thought.

I first heard of Christian Science when my husband introduced me to a friend who was a student of Science. About a year after this our youngest son became ill.

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.