Testimonies of Healing

Among the many blessings which God has bestowed upon me through the teachings of Christian Science are a happy home wherein the members are working Christian Scientists, membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, class instruction, and the ability through reflection to follow the command of Jesus to heal the sick and the sinning. Truly, my eyes have been opened to "behold wondrous things out of thy law" ( Ps.

I wish to express humble gratitude for the many healings I have experienced in Christian Science. It was about thirteen years ago that I attended my first lecture and became much interested.

During the First World War, while living in Seattle, I heard much arguing for and against Christian Science by various members of my husband's family. It aroused in me a curiosity to learn more about this Science which had created so much controversial conversation.

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 410 ), "Every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger.

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.