Testimonies of Healing

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.

WORDS cannot express my gratitude to God for the healing power of Christian Science as discovered and founded by Mary Baker Eddy. Healings through this Science are precious beyond expression, for they transform one's life by replacing such conditions as insecurity, fear, and other negative mental states with positive qualities.

My first testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel of November 22, 1930. Since then I have had further proofs of the healing Christ as demonstrated in Christian Science.

I wish to express my gratitude for all the benefits received through the study and application of Christian Science. My first healing was of grief when my mother passed on.

I Had never heard the words "Christian Science" until I married a student of this wonderful religion; then I began to learn a new way of life. I had been taught that God saw everything one did, but the fact that He is Love was never mentioned.

Forty years ago, having neglected to use what I learned in my early religious training, I unprogressively leaned towards atheism. In 1925 was published in the Christian Science Sentinel my introduction to a Christian Science lecture, in which I said in part: "Before I began the study of Christian Science I was a most emphatic and determined foe of all things which I thought Christian Science represented.