Testimonies of Healing
Words fail to express my gratitude for Christian Science. Through its study and application I have had innumerable healings.
For some time before beginning the study of Christian Science, I was troubled by apparent contradictions in the Bible as to the nature of God. From my very first reading of Science and Health by Mrs.
All I have I owe to Christian Science, and words alone can never express my gratitude to God and to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for the many blessings I have experienced. Some twenty years ago, when a small boy, on the advice of a specialist I underwent an operation for what was believed to be a tumor on the brain.
About eleven years ago, before I was interested in Christian Science, I fell heavily on a wet sidewalk. Subsequently there was so much pain concurrent with any movement of my body that medical help was sought, and the difficulty was diagnosed as a dislocation of the sacroiliac joint on the left side.
" According to Christian Science, perfection is normal,—not miraculous," states our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on on page 104 of "Miscellaneous Writings. " Since my introduction to Christian Science, it has been my greatest desire to prove the correctness of this declaration.
" Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," Jesus said. It is with humility and gratitude that I testify to my own awakening to the truth.
In 1917, after many sorrows, disappointments, and illnesses, I was brought into Christian Science and attended my first Sunday service. During the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation as given in Science and Health by Mrs.
" We must seek the undivided garment, the whole Christ, as our first proof of Christianity, for Christ, Truth, alone can furnish us with absolute evidence. " Thus writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 142 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
When I was in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, the Christian Science chaplain stationed there called us to his quarters one night for a helpful chat. He had observed that most of our testimonies at Wednesday meetings concerned demonstrations our mothers had made in our behalf when we were children.
When I was seven years old, I entered the Christian Science Sunday School, and for the past twenty-six years I have known nothing but Christian Science. My first healing, when a boy of eight, was of mastoiditis, and it was effected in a few hours with the aid of a Christian Science practitioner.