Testimonies of Healing
My husband and I became interested in Christian Science shortly after our marriage, and it has been our only physician and guide for over thirty-five years. My first healing, which was one of weak lungs, from which I had suffered for ten years, was accomplished in one treatment by a practitioner; and it has been permanent.
Christian Science has given direction to my life, and I am humbly grateful that I am learning to conform my life to the Christ-principle it elucidates. I have been able to reject and exclude from my experience the label "a sickly child.
About fifteen years ago I moved from my home town to a city some thirty miles distant to accept new employment. To meet my immediate need I rented a room in a private house and secured my meals in restaurants.
In Psalms ( 40:5 ) we read, "Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. " Indeed, the blessings I have received through Christian Science are more than can be numbered.
I wish to relate an outstanding case of healing which occurred through the application of Christian Science when my daughter was seven years old. She and one of her friends were playing with Christmas decorations in the basement of our home.
When still a boy in Warsaw, Poland, I used to pray that God would help me to become such a man as He wanted me to be. This prayer for obedience to God's will enabled me later to find Christian Science.
I am indeed grateful for Christian Science. It came to me when I was seeking a better way of life than the selfish, limited way which I was then following.
The Psalmist wrote ( Ps. 138:8 ), "The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.
The following healings are some of the benefits my family and I have enjoyed through Christian Science during the past twenty-three years. My husband was healed of a tumor in the stomach by one absent treatment.
" O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph" ( Ps. 47:1 ).