Testimonies of Healing
Mrs. Eddy writes on page 494 of Science and Health, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.
The privilege of being raised in a home where Christian Science was lived and loved was indeed a great one. Each day I am awakening to a higher sense of gratitude for this and for the years I had in the Christian Science Sunday School.
Joy and gratitude for the precious gift of Christian Science impel me to offer this testimony to all who desire to know if this religion heals. At the time of the passing on of my mother, Christian Science was comparatively new to me, yet I had no sense of separation because I saw clearly that Life never ends.
After many years of gaining comfort and inspiration from reading testimonies in our periodicals, I will give my own in the hope that it will encourage other readers. My interest in Christian Science was first awakened by the almost fanatical misstatements made in their sermons by our local Protestant ministers, who were aroused by the holding of services by a few students of Science in our town.
Having witnessed so much suffering in the home during my childhood and young womanhood, I shall never forget the wonderful light that dawned upon my troubled sense as I caught my first glorious glimpses of Christian Science over twenty-five years ago. I shall never cease to be thankful for the fulfillment of its rich promises which have been manifested in my experience in the degree that I have been faithful and obedient to its teachings.
A dear friend, seeing my need for healing, presented Christian Science to me, but I did not accept it immediately. I had just had a severe operation and thought if I could only regain my health I should regain my joy and happiness and establish harmony in my home.
Words alone can never express my gratitude for the joy and peace that have come into my life through the study and application of Christian Science as taught by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other writings. After all my family had passed on, Christian Science healed me of intense loneliness, sadness, and fear of the future, as well as a sense of frustration and inactivity.
From my early youth to young manhood I regularly attended an orthodox church and Sunday School. But later, when I was associated with agnostic and atheistic thinking, it became evident that I had not been taught anything basic which I could use constructively in defense of my religion; so I was not able to follow Peter's instruction ( I Pet.
Words are inadequate to express one's feeling of gratitude after witnessing a healing in Christian Science of a disease which seems to give evil one of its most prolific sources of human bondage. My wife's healing of tuberculosis was so complete and effective that I feel it is a privilege to verify it.
In Isaiah ( 43:12 ) we read: "I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God. " I came into Christian Science for a healing of tuberculosis.