Testimonies of Healing

From earliest childhood I had bitterly opposed taking medicine, so much so that to give me any usually required force. My mother said the only reason I ever offered was that I wanted God to heal me.

Christian Science has taught me the importance of reading the Bible through an inspired and spiritual sense of the Word. I have found that this Science not only illumines the Scriptures, but shows us how to apply the spiritual teachings found therein to our everyday problems.

" Follow the directions of God as simplified in Christian Science, and though it be through deserts He will direct you into the paths of peace," our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, admonishes in her priceless book, "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p. 361 ).

With sincere gratitude for blessings received, I wish to confirm the testimony of my wife. At the time we turned to Christian Science for help, she was very weak and confined to her bed.

I took up the study of Christian Science because of ill-health. I was an active member of an orthodox church and was seeking God, but at the same time I was placing my faith in materia medica.

" Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy" ( Ps. 107:2 ).

Through Christian Science so many blessings have been mine in a short period of time that I want to share these proofs of God's abundant love for man. Although I had been born and brought up in a Christian Science atmosphere, and many beautiful instances of protection and healing had accompanied our family life, when I went away to college I did not take my stand for Science or turn to it for help.

Having been the beneficiary for a number of years of the truth as taught in Christian Science, I feel that the time has come when I should express my gratitude. When I opened the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was searching for something that would bring peace and satisfaction.

In the many years since I first became interested in Christian Science I have had numerous healings and helpful experiences. One of these healings I should like to tell about, since it illustrates the modus operandi of this Science.

I Thank God for Christian Science, which has brought sweet waters out of the bitterest desert in my experience. When Christian Science came to me, I believed myself to be a victim of many physical ills and of hopeless circumstances which made happiness or the unfoldment of any individual usefulness impossible.