Testimonies of Healing

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.

I was reared in a Christian home where I was taught to love God, and when quite young I became a member of an orthodox church. But when my husband passed on, leaving me with four children, I found myself seeking God's presence in vain; He seemed so near, yet so far away.

It is with a grateful heart that I offer this testimony of the healing truth of Christian Science. About twenty years ago, while suffering from what the medical profession had called a nervous breakdown, I took up the daily study of Christian Science and was healed.

The testimonies in the periodicals have been very helpful to me, and I feel it is time that I expressed my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me throughout the years since I began the study of this great religion. Many years ago a sincere and prayerful desire to know the truth and to understand God was answered by my being led to Christian Science.

The realization that all is mental, which grows clearer day by day to the student of Christian Science, brings into view wonderful revelations of God's great love and the recognition that healing is a mental experience, a rising above the ignorance of material sense into the enlightenment of pure spiritual sense. Jesus said ( Matt.

Although I have expressed my heartfelt gratitude many times for the healing power of Christian Science, I have not yet done so through the medium of our periodicals. My first healing came before I started reading the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

I am giving this testimony with the hope that it may help someone else. Eighteen years ago our youngest daughter, then, eight years of age, passed on.

A dear member of our immediate family who had suffered for more than forty years sought relief in Christian Science. He required my assistance when attending the services in a Church of Christ, Scientist, and this was my introduction to Christian Science.

One day, soon after I had become interested in Christian Science, my five-year-old son went into a coma. When he had been in this state for nearly twenty-four hours I became alarmed and called upon a friend to wire a Christian Science practitioner for help.

My first contact with Christian Science was an invitation to accompany a neighboring family to a nearby town and visit the Christian Science Sunday School there. This led to my regular attendance at the Sunday School, which in turn led to membership in a branch church when my family moved to a larger city.