Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science came into our home when I was a small child and healed my father after three physicians had pronounced his case hopeless. Attendance at Sunday School and membership in a branch church were a joy in my childhood.

Christian Science was first introduced into our family by my brother, who had come into contact with it while on a business trip. We paid little attention to it then, but later, when we had moved to another city, my sister and I began dropping in at the Wednesday evening testimony meetings of a Church of Christ, Scientist, near by, because, being strangers, we had little else to do.

I can date my spiritual awakening many years ago to a passage written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which I read and pondered. It is as follows: There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere.

It is a privilege to acknowledge the daily joyousness of living and all the healings that have come to me in Christian Science. Nothing could compare with the cognition that one does not need to fear anything, since God is good.

I feel a close relationship with those men and women whose testimonies compose the last chapter of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our revered and beloved Mary Baker Eddy, for like many of them I long ago received a healing at my first reading of that unique and remarkable book. A serious trouble with my eyes had threatened to end my scholastic career.

I have been wanting for some time to express my gratitude for the help which Christian Science has been to me; but there are no words that will adequately state the joy, peace, and love I have known since finding this new-old religion. My daughter, who had been a Scientist for about a year, first told me about it.

" He sent his word, and healed them" ( Ps. 107:20 ).

Over twenty-seven years ago I accepted Christian Science after witnessing the healing of our baby of curvature of the spine. The family physician had told us that nothing could be done.

I have received so much good from the testimonies which I have read in the periodicals that I wish to share my experience. In Psalms we read ( 42:1, 2 ): "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

In my early childhood I was an invalid, for I had had birth paralysis and was a very weak and sickly child. Everything possible was done for me, but I was faced with the difficulty of not being able to learn anything.