Testimonies of Healing

On reading an article in the Journal I realized that procrastination was the cause of my not sending for publication a testimony of gratitude for all the good I have received from the study of Christian Science. Through this Science I have experienced many physical healings, including that of a severe case of astigmatism.

It is with profound gratitude that I submit this testimony to the comforting and healing efficacy of Christian Science. In my early teens I was living with an aunt who, after two tumor operations by eminent surgeons, was given but two years to live.

When confronted with what seemed to me unbearable loneliness and responsibility during the absence of my husband, whose work took him out of the state, I began to read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. I felt that I needed spiritual power to sustain me, and I found the way to know God and to depend upon Him through reading that divinely inspired book.

Christian Science first came to me as the Comforter when I saw a copy of the Journal in the home of a high school friend. I did not know anything about Science at the time, but as I read the Journal, its message seemed to offer anchorage and refuge from a confused world and disturbed human relationships.

If I were asked to tell of all the wonderful blessings that have come to me and mine through the teachings of Christian Science, I should have to say with the Psalmist ( Ps. 40:5 ), "They are more than can be numbered.

I came into Christian Science several years ago after three months of being in and out of hospitals with a blood infection and a nervous breakdown. I had a series of blood tests, X rays, shock treatments, and everything else that medical science recommended for my help; but I grew worse steadily and lost weight rapidly.

It is with a deep sense of gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me and mine that I give this testimony. My hope is that it may help someone whose healing seems slow.

I can never be too grateful for having been taught Christian Science by my mother when I was a child. In the place where we then lived there was no Christian Science church or Sunday School, but there was divine Love, tenderly imparting its lessons to its little ones.

With an ever-increasing sense of gratitude for the many blessings which have come to my dear ones and me through the study and application of Christian Science I wish to offer this testimony. My first healing was that of a chronic functional disorder of many years' standing.

It is with a deep sense of love and gratitude for growth in grace and for innumerable proofs of the constant care and protection that God gives His beloved children that I submit this testimony. As a very small child I was constantly ill and under a doctor's care.