Testimonies of Healing

I had attended a Christian Science Sunday School in my early teens, but I did not keep up the study of Christian Science. After I was married and when our oldest son was a baby, he was constantly troubled with colds.

Christian Science was first presented to me in 1910, at which time I had a passing interest in it as one of the many religions and philosophies which I had investigated in my search for a satisfying faith. In the summer of 1913, however, I was in a state of mental depression bordering on melancholia.

During World War II my husband, our two children, and I did not have a home of our own, and the necessity of living with others made me very despondent and frustrated. My mother, who is a Christian Scientist, advised me to seek help from a Christian Science practitioner.

It was my privilege to be a member of a Christian Science Organization and to serve on its various committees during my college years. I am especially grateful for the privilege of serving on its lecture and meta-physical committees on the fuller understanding of the meaning of service and the great inspiration that came to me as a result of this work, I am deeply grateful.

I thank God with all my heart for Christian Science, for it has abundantly blessed my life. I suffered from a severe case of tuberculosis of the lungs and was not expected to recover.

"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings. " Many years ago I learned that this opening statement of the Preface to Science and Health by Mrs.

In 1903 my mother was healed instantaneously in Christian Science of a physical difficulty while she was attending The Mother Church. I was placed in the Christian Science Sunday School and had the privilege of attending for fourteen years.

Christian Science has brought many blessings into my life, and for this I am deeply grateful. Five generations of my family have had the privilege of membership in The Mother Church and its branch churches.

I first learned of Christian Science when I was a little girl, through my mother's sisters; but my father was so opposed that for many years I was denied the privilege of attending the Christian Science Sunday School or reading the textbook. Science and Health by Mrs.

While visiting in another state, I went to see a friend one afternoon and while there was seized with a most violent attack of illness. She read an article from a Christian Science Sentinel to me, and I was soon able to return to the home of friends, where I was staying.