
Testimonies of Healing
All power is given unto our Lord, On Him we place reliance; With truth from out His sacred word We bid our foes defiance. With Him we shall prevail, Whatever may assail; He is our shield and tower, Almighty is His power; His kingdom is forever.
" I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord" ( Ps. 118:17 ).
I wish to express my gratitude for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church and for the privilege of serving the Cause of Christian Science. Many years ago, after I had been attending a Christian Science church for some time, I began to have a great sense of gratitude for what the church was doing for me and had a desire to become a member in order that I might help the Cause that I was learning to love.
Some years ago I was away on holiday with a friend who I knew attended a Church of Christ, Scientist; so I asked if I might go along to a service with her. The subject of the Lesson-Sermon as given in the Christian Science Quarterly that week was "God," and I was so impressed with the peace and calm of the beautiful service that I decided then and there I had found the religion I wanted.
Words alone cannot express my gratitude for Christian Science, of which I have been a student for several years. Blessings beyond my power to describe have come to me through the study and application of this Science, and many healings have been experienced.
With a heart full of gratitude to God for Christian Science and what it has done for me and my family during the past thirty-five years, I wish to add my testimony. When everything seemed dark to me and the way to health very uncertain a neighbor, whom I had learned to love, came to see me and lovingly asked me if I would like to try Christian Science.
I was an active member of an orthodox church when I was very young, but some of its teachings I could not believe. Several years later, while browsing in a public library, I found the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.
Very early in my life I learned that Christian Science heals. One outstanding example was the healing of diseased adenoids.
It is with sincere gratitude that I thank God for His great love and for Mrs. Eddy, whose unselfed love, consecration, and purity enabled her to reveal to mankind the way of salvation and healing that Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, had practiced centuries before.
The first time I read Science and Health by our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, I was healed of a sick headache.