Testimonies of Healing

" The day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision" ( Joel 3:14 ). What a comfort it is when we are toiling in this valley to remember that the day of the Lord is always near.

I am very grateful for Christian Science. Membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church has given me a sense of stability and assurance.

A Thanksgiving edition of The Christian Science Monitor was my introduction to Christian Science a little over forty years ago. It was sent to me by my mother, who had placed me in the home of a friend when I was three months old because she had been given up to die of a dread disease.

" As a material, theoretical life-basis is found to be a misapprehension of existence, the spiritual and divine Principle of man dawns upon human thought, and leads it to 'where the young child was. '—even to the birth of a new-old idea, to the spiritual sense of being and of what Life includes.

I was enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School at the age of ten years, and a completely new world unfolded to me. I looked forward to each Sunday with great expectation and joy, because I was eager to learn more of my true identity with our Father-Mother God and to understand better my oneness, or unity, with God, who is Love.

About twenty-seven years ago I picked up a friend's copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, the textbook of Christian Science, and read a few pages in the chapter on Prayer.

For the Christian Science Sunday School and for the consecrated teachers from whom I received a firm foundation for my study and application of this Science, I shall always be most grateful. I am especially grateful that in Christian Science we have a practical religion.

To attempt with words an expression of gratitude for the blessings Christian Science has poured into my life would be like trying to describe the beauty of a full-blown rose wet with the early morning dew, or to convey the joy and happiness on the face of a little child greeting a loved one after a long absence. The many physical healings have included safe passage through "the valley of the shadow of death" for myself and our younger daughter, complete freedom from a sinus infection of many years' standing which had caused years of great pain and suffering, as well as the overcoming of countless minor physical discomforts.

Through the study and practice of Christian Science I have experienced many physical healings, and the way has opened to a much richer and fuller life. I wish to express my gratitude to God for Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, and for Mrs.

Over thirty years ago, while I was studying music in the East, I became interested in Christian Science. The study and application of its rules, as given to the world by Mrs.