Testimonies of Healing
One year as the Christmas season drew near I felt the need of divine guidance before starting on a shopping tour. In opening a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel, I found it was dated February 24, 1945.
For many years the testimonies in the periodicals have been a great help to me. I should like to add mine in the hope that others may be blessed as I have been by the reading of the testimonies.
In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. 135 ): "There is to-day danger of repeating the offence of the Jews by limiting the Holy One of Israel and asking: 'Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?' What cannot God do?" Over a period of nearly thirty years I have found that there is nothing God cannot and will not do if we turn unreservedly to Him.
" One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts" ( Ps. 145:4 ).
In heartfelt gratitude to God I wish to acknowledge publicly a few of the many blessings He has bestowed on me through my study of Christian Science. This is done with the hope that someone needing this particular testimony may be encouraged and benefited.
From the earliest time I remember I knew only pain and suffering from heart trouble and various complications. My parents, who were good Christians, lovingly did everything they could to help me through medical science.
For more than forty years I was a smoker. During that period I faced all the arguments for and against the habit.
A few days before my marriage I was suddenly attacked by a nervous condition in the forehead and eyes. After two days I asked the help of a Christian Science practitioner, and work was taken up; but the condition continued.
Healing in Christian Science is wonderful, and the relief from sickness, grief, lack, and fear is very welcome indeed. Yet we sometimes take our healings for granted and forget to speak or write of them.
I wish to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has meant to me for over thirty-five years. I became interested in this Science through a healing I had when I was ten years old, and from that time it has been wholly relied on and has met my every need when correctly applied.