Testimonies of Healing
Jesus said ( Matt. 10:8 ), "Freely ye have received, freely give.
It is a great privilege to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for what it has done for me. It has healed me of many disorders and corrected many false conceptions.
How very grateful I am to Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, for providing us with her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which contains the remedy for all human problems. I am also grateful for the periodicals— The Christian Science Journal with its healing metaphysical articles, editorials, and testimonies; the Christian Science Sentinel with some more messages of Love and Truth that replenish and refresh our thought; The Christian Science Monitor, our daily newspaper, with its quiet and unbiased views on current events.
For many years Christian Science has been my only physician. My introduction to it came at a most critical time, when tuberculosis threatened my life.
About thirty-seven years ago my mother sent me to a Christian Science practitioner for treatment after doctors had failed to help me. I had always been a delicate girl, and at that time I was told that I had pleurisy and that I lacked vitality; also that I must rest and take medicine to build up my strength.
When I entered a hospital to train as a medical nurse my desire was to do healing work. I could not reconcile myself to the methods used, however, and I made myself unpopular with my seniors by saying so.
" Christian Science is always the most skilful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing which will be last acknowledged," states Mary Baker Eddy on page 402 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " This testimony bears witness to the truth that Christian Science indeed is "the most skilful surgeon.
Christian Science was first presented to me when I was a young girl studying in a conservatory of music in a large city. I have experienced numerous healings from that time on; but for many years I relied mostly upon the help of practitioners, doing little metaphysical work for myself.
My experience in Christian Science has been a rich one, extending over a period of thirty years. The first articles I read in a Christian Science Sentinel convinced me that Science was the truth I had been searching for.
When I hear or read of people expressing gratitude for having been brought into Christian Science I cannot but realize the privilege it is to have known this demonstrable religion all my life. I am deeply thankful to have been free from dependence on medical science, especially during my service in the British Army in World War II.