Testimonies of Healing
Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p.
My introduction to Christian Science came through the Christian Science Sentinel, which I read in a home where I boarded. I liked the Sentinel and kept reading it.
About three years ago I rose early one morning at our mountain cabin with the expectation of closing it for the summer. I dressed accordingly, breakfasted, and studied the Lesson-Sermon for the week, found in the Christian Science Quarterly.
My mother became interested in Christian Science when I was a baby, but I did not make any serious attempt to study it until I was nineteen. For years my study was somewhat desultory, having as its chief purpose the overcoming of physical ailments and the demonstration of harmony in my work as a country schoolteacher.
My interest in Christian Science extends over a period of nearly forty years. At the age of eighteen I was told that I would never live to be twenty-five, as I was suffering from weak lungs, a tendency toward which was said to be hereditary.
In 1934 I suffered for several months from a severe attack of pleurisy, which incapacitated me for work. On my way to call on a specialist I met a woman who was a Christian Science practitioner.
Christian Science came into my life about nine years ago when I was longing for greater spiritual satisfaction. Although I was busily engaged in the activities of an orthodox church, nothing seemed to satisfy that longing.
At one of the first Wednesday testimony meetings I attended in a Church of Christ, Scientist, I was startled to hear a woman say that through her study of Christian Science the Bible had become her daily companion and that whenever she had any decision to make she always turned to the Bible for guidance. While employed in an office in the north of England I was asked if I would like to go to South America with a friend who was returning to her work there.
Since beginning the study of Christian Science a number of years ago, I have experienced numerous physical healings. Each has been a step toward a fuller understanding of true being.
Through this testimony I wish to express an ever-increasing sense of love and gratitude to God for His goodness, to Christ Jesus for his demonstration and teaching of God's allness and loving care for His creation, and to Mary Baker Eddy for her consecrated life and works, through which she presented to the world the demonstrable Science of Christianity. Christian Science came to our family when I was very young.