Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science has brought me good health a truer outlook on life, more love, patience, and courage, and great peace of mind. During the past thirty-two years I have never called a physician in any emergency of illness or accident.

One day as I read the testimonies in the Christian Science Sentinel, this thought came to me: If those who have enjoyed the blessings of Christian Science and experienced beautiful healings, as I have, do not write testimonies for publication, there may not be sufficient testimonies to meet the need of the periodicals. So I decided to send my testimony in immediately.

A testimony I read in the March, 1947, issue of The Herald of Christian Science (German Edition) prompted me to submit mine. I too was healed by a study of the definition of "sun" on page 595 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

As I have experienced so much help and encouragement on countless occasions through reading testimonies in our periodicals, I feel I must put my gratitude into action and send in my long-overdue testimony. I took up the study of Christian Science over twenty years ago while trying to find help for my mother, who was suffering mentally and was in fear of having to be taken to a mental home At that time I was a worker in an orthodox church, and my concept of God was that of a mysterious, corporeal man.

Over twenty years ago I had pernicious anemia. The doctors at a well-known medical clinic told me, after exhaustive examinations, that I was in the last stages of the disease and that there was no record in medical history of recovery from such a condition.

Finding Christian Science was for me an answer to prayer. My father had taught me that there was only one Mind, God, and that when that Mind was trustingly relied upon, it would govern all my affairs harmoniously.

The healing efficacy of the Christ, Truth, as taught in Christian Science has been demonstrated in our family many times. When I was six years old, I was healed in Christian Science of scarlet fever and of a severe rupture for which medical science had been unable to provide any permanent relief.

I have been a student of Christian Science for about nine years, and it has brought me many blessings. I have been healed of constipation, frequent colds, warts, and many other ailments through the application of this Science and have been able to arrest the progress of symptoms, saving myself and others much inconvenience.

I wish to express my gratitude for having been reared in a home where Christian Science was taught and lived, for attendance at the Christian Science Sunday School, for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, and for class instruction. I have had many healings in Christian Science, and my family has been greatly blessed over a period of years by its teachings and application.

" Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name" ( Ps. 103:1 ).