Testimonies of Healing

A severe illness in my infancy was believed to have left me with a stubborn case of eczema, together with nervousness, poor digestion, and a generally anemic condition. For about twenty years my parents were untiring in their efforts to employ the aid of the different schools of medicine in my behalf.

I have so much to be grateful for that I hardly know where to begin. My earliest recollections of home and childhood are the prayers at night at my mother's knee.

For many years I have been receiving the benefits that come through the study and practice of the truth as taught in Christian Science. While I was in the darkness and despair of a severe nervous breakdown, Christian Science was presented by a family friend and was accepted.

I am deeply grateful to God for Christian Science and for all it has done for me in the past ten years. When I first heard of it, I was in need of a healing of nervous debility and chronic constipation, which had failed to yield to prolonged medical treatment.

The inspiration gained from vast numbers of testimonies in our periodicals prompts me to express my deepest gratitude to God and to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for the limitless blessings of Christian Science.

I had a wonderful healing in Christian Science about twenty-three years ago. My aroused interest in this teaching led me to read the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.

My first contact with Christian Science came through a conversation with a student of this Science when I was on a vacation. During the conversation she repeated the twenty-third Psalm as given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy ( p.

I wish to express my gratitude for the healing power of Christian Science. In April, 1936, when I decided to try this Science for healing, I did not realize that I should also find a wonderful religion.

In comforting his brothers, Joseph said ( Gen. 45:8 ), "So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God.

After visiting a physician and being told by him that I should have an operation because of a severe hernia, I crossed the street to a Christian Science practitioner's office. I told the kind woman who greeted me that I had had this hernia for several years and that the doctor had told me I should have an operation.