Testimonies of Healing

" Giving does not impoverish us in the service of our Maker, neither does withholding enrich us" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p.

Mrs. Eddy states on page 243 of the textbook, Science and Health, "The divine Love, which made harmless the poisonous viper, which delivered men from the boiling oil, from the fiery furnace, from the jaws of the lion, can heal the sick in every age and triumph over sin and death.

When the statement, "God is Love and God is everywhere," was made to me by a student of Christian Science, I did not know that it would later bring me healing from nervous collapse. After months of spending most of my time crying, I was taken home from the office and ordered by the company doctor to rest for at least six months.

When Christian Science was presented to me, I was very much in need of help. We had left Vienna after the annexation, and I felt so bitter and unhappy that it actually made me ill, so ill that two major operations were performed.

Christian Science has indeed been proved to me to be the pearl of great price, and without it I do not know how we could have reared our six children. They had the great privilege of attending the Sunday School, where the seeds of Truth are sown.

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.