Testimonies of Healing

For a few days I had been in distress with dislocated vertebrae. Every position was painful.

During the first years of World War II we had a sick child. He had been in bed nearly all one winter, and although he was under the care of an eminent specialist, his condition was growing worse.

This testimony is given in gratitude for blessings received since I took up the study of Christian Science. I became interested in this teaching many years ago.

Christian Science was called to my attention by the wonderful healing of a relative of eye trouble. Because I had been interested in religious questions ever since my youth and had read a great deal of literature on the subject, I wanted to know how the healing had been brought about.

It would not be possible, in the space allotted, to enumerate the blessings which have accrued to my family through the study and application of Christian Science since the year 1889. In May of that year my grandmother, who had been given up by four physicians, was healed in Christian Science of a rupture at time of childbirth, and from that time until her passing on, in 1945.

Christian Science was in my mother's family, and I read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to a dear one on many occasions. I did not realize I needed this truth until years later when one of the South's most prominent doctors, having failed to restore my health, asked me if I had ever heard of Christian Science.

It is with a deep desire to encourage others to turn wholeheartedly to God for healing that I write this testimony. Many years ago I was suffering from an internal septic condition for the removal of which a doctor and a specialist said that an operation was imperative.

I am deeply grateful for all who love Christian Science, for all who are loyal to one God, for His two witnesses, Christ Jesus and Christian Science, which was discovered and founded by Mary Baker Eddy. Early Sunday School training from devoted and loyal students of Christian Science gave me a spontaneous faith in prayer to God and its ever-available answer.

It is with a feeling of deep gratitude that I relate my first major healing through the power of Christian Science. From the time I was a little child and all during my youth, I suffered from so-called epileptic fits, which were very distressing.

Through the study and application of Christian Science, I can say with the Psalmist ( 40:2 ), "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. " At the time that Christian Science came into my life I was disillusioned, bitter, and fearful, believing in neither God nor man.