Testimonies of Healing
In 1913 I met a friend whom I had not seen for some years. I discovered that she had become a student of Christian Science, and at her invitation I attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting.
When I was a very small child, Christian Science came to our home, and I feel it is time to express my gratitude to God through a testimony in one of our periodicals. Many years ago my mother was healed of cancer.
With a heart filled with gratitude for all that Christian Science has done to heal and regenerate mankind, I submit the following testimony. I have always been grateful that in early childhood I was taught the importance of attending Sunday School.
One of the first healings I witnessed in Christian Science impressed me very much and has always remained with me. It happened when our baby was very ill.
Christian Science, has brought a complete change in my thinking after fifty years of orthodox religions affiliation and dependence on materia medica. About eight years ago a heart specialist diagnosed my physical problem as valvular heart leakage.
With a heart filled with gratitude I wish to express my appreciation for Christian Science. I was seventeen years of age when Christian Science came into our home.
Many years ago it was my joy ful experience to find Christian Science; or, to be more explicit, it found me. My mental condition at the time I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy was one of confusion and turmoil.
This testimony is prompted by gratitude for our beloved periodicals and for the healing thought expressed in an article in an issue of the Journal. The clear light of Love shining in the joyous faces of friends who visited my parents when I was a young child awoke in me a deep desire to be a Christian Scientist.
Some fourteen years ago I was suffering from heart trouble, and a friend with whom I worked in business and who knew of my difficulty laid a copy of the Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel on my desk and asked me if I had ever read them. When I said I had not, he remarked that perhaps I should like to, and so to be courteous I took them home.
In 1925 I was ushered into Christian Science through the healing of nervous prostration. While I was under Christian Science treatment, low blood pressure, severe backaches, headaches, and a chronic condition of constipation disappeared.