Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science has met my every need when properly applied. Some healings have been slow, while others have been instantaneous.

In her book "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gives us the comforting assurance ( pp. 149, 150 ): "Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee.

Because of Christian Science I have a great deal for which to be grateful. It has taught me what is true of God and man, filling my life with joy, peace, and spiritual activity.

Gratitude for more than thirty years of protection and guidance through Christian Science prompts me to submit this testimony. As a boy I thought the healings related in the Bible were very natural, and I could not understand why sickness could not be healed by prayer, as Jesus taught.

Before my first visit to a Christian Science Reading Room I wanted to die, but I also wanted to know more about God. Although I had attended an orthodox church and Sunday School since I was a child, I was not satisfied with what I had been taught.

It is with humble gratitude that I write this testimony, hoping that it will help others as testimonies have helped me. Our family has experienced so many outstanding blessings through the study and application of Christian Science that space will not permit me to relate them all.

Christian Science came into my experience during the depression years. My father had passed on, and the duties of maintaining a home had fallen upon my shoulders.

At the time that I received a letter saying I had been accepted for class instruction in Christian Science my husband and I were given one month's notice to vacate the house we were renting. This presented an obstacle to the fulfillment of my desire to go through class, since there was a housing shortage.

I should like to express my unbounded gratitude for Christian Science and for all that it has done for me and for my family. Although I knew of it throughout my youth.

" It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind" (Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy, Art.