Testimonies of Healing
It is more than twenty-five years since I heard of Christian Science. At first I was reluctant to accept its teachings.
My appreciation is unbounded because of the fact that the impressionable years of my teens were spent in the Christian Science Sunday School. How well I know that here was laid a foundation for withstanding the distractions and temptations presented by the illusory claims of mortal existence.
About twenty-five years ago I was told by several physicians that it would be necessary for me to undergo a major operation in order to avoid being an invalid for the rest of my life. In my extremity I turned to God for help.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude for Christian Science that I write this testimony. In 1910 I moved to a western city to make my permanent home, and I became very friendly with some Christian Scientists.
In gratitude for divine help in my hours of need I submit this testimony, hoping that it will strengthen another's faith in God. Christian Science has been my help for over forty-five years, and it has proved to me that regardless of whether a problem is small or great, man's dominion over it can be demonstrated.
Because I have been helped so many times by the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals, I want to express in a published testimony my love and appreciation for the teachings of Christian Science. From the time I gained even a little understanding of it, this Science has been my daily help, and through it I have been able to help members of my family.
I am deeply grateful for God's loving care and protection of our son during the summer of 1949, when he was taken prisoner and interned in the Eastern Zone of Germany for two months. He and a friend had been on a bicycle trip in the British Isles and France, expecting to return to the United States on a freighter sailing from Hamburg, Germany.
In the Manual of The Mother Church Mrs. Eddy writes ( Art.
Although late in expressing my love for and appreciation of Christian Science through the periodicals, I wish to give some of the many reasons for my heartfelt gratitude to God, divine Love, for this living, loving truth. In my case it was necessary to realize my utter helplessness before I accepted or even wanted the truth.
Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( Pref. , p.