Testimonies of Healing

Each day my heart is filled with a song of gratitude for the great gift of Christian Science and for the many blessings which have come to me as a result of its study. In 1905, after several years of semi-invalidism, my father was told by medical authorities that he had an incurable heart condition, and as a last resort he turned to Christian Science.

Over ten years ago I began the systematic study and practice of Christian Science through a healing experienced as the result of scientific right thinking on the part of a friend, who afterwards became a practitioner. She gave me no treatment, as I had asked for none.

In gratitude for many blessings received through the study of Christian Science, I give this testimony. About thirty years ago I was healed of asthma, from which I had suffered since I was a small child and which had become very severe.

Forty-two years ago my father was healed of consumption of the bowels through reading our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. Since then many healings have taken place in our family, which at the time of my father's healing consisted of seven small children.

I should like to express gratitude for the healings, guidance, and protection which have come to me through the study of Christian Science. Nearly twenty years ago, as a Mother's Day gift, I agreed to go one Sunday to the Christian Science Sunday School because my mother wanted that more than any gift I could give her.

I wish to express gratitude for all the blessings that have come to me through God's loving care when I have been obedient to the rules laid down for us in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Christian Science was first heard of in our home when my mother was suffering from ulcers and had been given up by physicians.

I wish to express my sincere gratitude for Christian Science and for the unselfish devotion of Mary Baker Eddy in giving it to the world. I am most grateful that my family accepted Christian Science the second time it was presented to us about fourteen years ago.

Roget's Thesaurus gives "acknowledgment" as one of the synonyms of gratitude. I wish to acknowledge the benefits I have received through the study of Christian Science.

I did not begin the study of Christian Science with the thought of physical healing, but because of a deep longing for something more than I was finding in my activity in an orthodox church. At this time of seeking I was led to ask my next-door neighbor, who was a Christian Science practitioner, what her religion taught about the questions that were troubling me.

I am profoundly grateful for Christian Science, the law of good, which has restored the true religion of our Master and Way-shower, Christ Jesus, as taught in the Bible and in our precious textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and in her other writings.