Testimonies of Healing

" Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled" ( Matt. 5:6 ).

This testimony of mine can give only a glimpse of the many blessings and healings which have come into my experience through the years, all of them entirely due to Christian Science. I have always been particularly glad that the truth is simple, though also profound.

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for a healing which I received recently of a growth on my body which had been there since early childhood. It came to me that unnatural growths do not belong to man, the image and likeness of Spirit, God.

Gratitude prompts me to give this expression of thanks for the many blessings I have received in Christian Science. About the time I began school I also entered the Christian Science Sunday School, where I remained until the age of twenty, when I joined the branch Church of Christ, Scientist, of which I am still a member.

Fifty years ago for a child to say that he was a Christian Scientist would bring about teasing and ridicule. The writer knows, having had such experiences.

I have had many wonderful proofs of the efficacy of Christian Science; but I am beginning to realize that the appreciation which I have often voiced at our Wednesday testimony meetings will not be fully expressed until I have availed myself of the privilege of expressing it through our authorized periodicals. An outstanding healing for which I am most grateful occurred a few years ago.

This testimony is long overdue. Early in 1914 I rented a room in the home of a student of Christian Science.

Christian Science was presented to me in 1938 by my mother, who had been a Scientist for a long time. I was then in despair over a physical condition which the treatments of several doctors had failed to cure.

Although I have given many testimonies at Wednesday meetings, I have never yet given a written testimony, and as I have been a recipient for about twenty-five years of the many blessings that Christian Science brings to its students, I feel it is time that this step be taken. Christian Science has been my guide and support through all the years since I first began to understand the teachings of our revered Leader, Mrs.

My first healing in Christian Science was of a disease which the doctors called incurable. For a year and a half I had medical treatment, but since no progress was made, I was sent to a large city for a special examination.