Testimonies of Healing
" 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.
My heart overflows with gratitude as I increasingly experience God's love each day through depending on Him more fully for guidance. Twenty-six years ago my mother fell down some steps and tore the ligaments above her knees.
One fall about thirty years ago, I contracted a heavy cold which resulted in an abscess in my head. A specialist said it was too late for anything but an operation.
Christian Science has been a great help to me for nearly thirty years, and I feel my testimony of gratitude is long overdue. My first healing was of a badly poisoned hand.
When Christian Science was presented to me many years ago, it was rejected. In my ignorance of this religion's significance and import, I boastfully maintained that there was no need for it in my case.
When I was a child, Christian Science healed my mother in about a week of a serious organic disorder after she had been given up by the medical profession. This healing was accomplished through treatment by a practitioner who was living in a distant city.