Testimonies of Healing

On page 240 of Science and Health our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says, "If at present satisfied with wrong-doing, we must learn to loathe it.

Following the loss of my husband, I permitted erroneous thinking to make a most unhappy person of me. One day while I was talking with my sister, who was not a Christian Scientist but had read some of the authorized literature and had attended a Church of Christ, Scientist, a few times, she said to me, "I wish you would see a Christian Science practitioner.

As a token of gratitude for many blessings, I should like to offer this testimony of some of the demonstrations of God's care my family and I have experienced through Christian Science. I attended the Sunday School as a child, and although I drifted away from participation in church activities and from daily study of Christian Science during my teens and early twenties, the truths I had learned sustained me in times of need.

For many years Christian Science has been a wonderful help to me in meeting the problems of life and in subjecting them to the divine Principle which Science expounds. It first rescued me, as a girl, from nervous prostration, which had rendered impossible my enjoyment of life, cut me off from normal social pleasures and relationships, and reduced me to a near skeleton.

In preparing for extensive travel abroad involving sea and air transportation, I mentally tucked away these words from Psalms ( 139: 7-10 ): "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? .

When hit by an automobile, I sustained, among other injuries, a broken collarbone and shoulder. Knowing that Christian Science is the best surgeon and that divine Mind makes all needed adjustments, I accepted no medical aid.

An understanding of the truth of being as taught in Christian Science is the most priceless gift we can have. I have had many experiences which have proved to me beyond any possibility of doubt that Christian Science is the truth and that "man is the expression of God's being" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.

My gratitude for Christian Science is unbounded, and it is a great privilege for me to tell of a few of the blessings that have come to me and my family during the thirtyodd year's we have been studying this truth. Christian Science was first presented to our family through the Christian Science Sentinel.

In 1948 my husband and I had the great joy of acquiring a small farm of our own after we had worked on a farm several years for somebody else. But suddenly this joy was turned into sorrow, for after persistent coughing on my part an X-ray picture was taken, which showed a large cavity in one of my lungs.

In the opening lines of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes ( p. vii ), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.