Testimonies of Healing

I am truly grateful for the privilege of having been brought up in Christian Science by a loving mother, who became interested in it before the turn of the century. Christian Science was the guiding light of our home life.

It must be over twenty years since my first testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel, and it is high time for me to bear witness again to the healing power of Christian Science. I have had many wonderful physical healings during the past twenty years; but I want to write about a different kind of healing, as I know it will help many readers.

As my previous testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel of May 26. 1928, another one is long overdue.

I am sincerely grateful to Christian Science for the healing of a severe illness from which I had suffered for about fifteen years. For some time I had dieted and had been given injections, medicines, and other forms of treatment by various physicians because of digestive disturbances, accompanied by convulsive stomach and intestinal pain, as well as by fever.

Our family has enjoyed the benefits of Christian Science for more than twenty-five years and has had many healings. Some of us hesitate to speak of our lesser experiences and wait for more outstanding ones, but often through small demonstrations of Truth we learn many useful lessons.

For over thirty-five years I have enjoyed the blessings Christian Science bestows upon us in the ratio that we practice its teachings, and I feel it is high time that I expressed in writing the gratitude I feel. My life was quickly transformed by Christian Science from that of a sickly child to that of a healthy one as I eagerly drank in its truths.

I had the privilege of being brought up in Christian Science and of attending Sunday School from the age of six. I could scarcely begin to tell here of the countless blessings and healings which have taken place in my own experience and that of my family.

It is with an earnest desire to share my blessings, brought about through the application of Christian Science, that I write this testimony. For many years I have had a great desire to do this, but I thought I did not have any important healings to relate.

In her poem "Christ My Refuge" (Poems, p. 12 ) our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, describes the comfort of the Christ, Truth, as it establishes one securely on the rock of Life.

It is over thirty years since Christian Science came into my life and healed my baby daughter after several doctors, including a famous baby specialist, had failed to bring her health. She was so thin that strangers were shocked at seeing her.