Testimonies of Healing

" It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord" ( Ps. 92:1 ).

With humility and gratitude I submit this testimony of the efficacy with which Christian Science heals and saves. My introduction to the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, came in a Christian Science Reading Room, where I read till informed by the attendant that it was time to leave.

Recently as I sat quietly recalling the many years of blessings which I owe to Christian Science, I felt that it would be most fitting to send a testimony for the periodicals, which have been my daily benefactors throughout these years. Without these publications I could hardly have carried on at times.

Gratefully and humbly I wish to submit my testimony of healing and protection experienced solely through the study and practice of Christian Science. While I was serving in an executive position for a large nationally known company, my health became impaired, and a medical examination indicated that I was suffering from a nervous breakdown.

" How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth" ( Isa. 52:7 ).

In Psalms we read ( 75:1 ), "Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. " Because God's nearness has been proved to me many times by His wondrous works, I should like to express my gratitude.

I have been a student of Christian Science since 1916, and during that period I have witnessed many healings in my family. One of them was that of a fractured ankle.

When Christian Science was presented to me over twenty years ago, I did not at first want to read the Christian Science Sentinel that was given me because of adverse criticism I had accepted as being true. However, because I was ill with the hives and because I wanted to please the one who had offered me the Sentinel, I decided to read it, thinking that I would not have to believe it.

With deepest gratitude to God I offer this testimony in the hope that it will help someone as I have many times been helped by reading the testimonies of others. It is more than thirty years since I became interested in Christian Science through my mother's healing of blindness in one eye, following the verdict of an eye specialist that she would never see again with that eve.

I should like to share an experience that proved the healing efficacy of Christian Science. One morning I awoke in excruciating pain and found that I was unable to use my limbs from the waist down.