Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science came into our home years ago as the result of my healing. At the time we lived in an eastern state, and I was just a young girl.

Christian Science came into my life about twenty-six years ago. I had been brought up in one of the orthodox denominations and had tried to find comfort in it, but in vain.

I have known of Christian Science since I was a small boy and have seen many proofs of the healing power of this present-day teaching of the eternal Christ. It fills our every need when understood and put into practice, not just when we have a specific problem, but daily as we go about our duties.

My earliest right apprehension of God came when I first attended a Christian Science Sunday service over forty years ago. At this service I learned enough about God as Love and man as His image to banish forever the nightmare of fear and discouragement that had held me in bondage for several years.

Christian Science was presented to me in my adult life by an earnest, conscientious student, and I started to study it because it seemed to offer a more satisfying religion than the denomination of which I was a member. I studied and read and gave a great deal more time and thought to it than I had ever before taken for my spiritual well-being.

I wish to express my gratitude for the healing which brought me into Christian Science. When I was about ten years of age, a woman lived in our neighborhood who was a student of Christian Science.

God is Love. This thought, held to faithfully, proved to me that God does heal when we turn from all material remedies to the one and only power, God.

It has long been my desire to express loving gratitude for the spirituality and steadfastness of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in giving to the world the truth about God and man, God's law of harmony, which she has named Christian Science. This truth transformed me from a sickly, sorrowful individual to one of buoyant health and boundless joy.

In casting about for more tithes to bring into the storehouse, I remembered that I had never given thanks "in the great congregation" of readers of the Christian Science periodicals. In my early teens I sought an answer to the question, "Why is there no healing today in the manner our Master provided?" I eagerly searched for the answer, but my clerical friends could not give it.

In my sixteen years of experience in Christian Science I have had many beautiful healings. The first evidence of the power of Truth upon the body was a night of restful sleep after I had asked a Christian Science practitioner for help.