Testimonies of Healing

I have been counting some of my blessings since the publication of my previous testimony in the Christian Science Sentinel a few years ago, and humbly submit this one in the hope that it will give encouragement and comfort to others seeking healing in Christian Science. I remember that when Science first came to me I was so uplifted by its beauty that I lived for a long time in thought on the mountaintop.

Up to the time that Christian Science found me at the age of ten I was sick most of every winter with such heavy colds that we always thought they would develop into tuberculosis. And because of time lost from school I was two years behind.

Because we have recently moved to a town where there is no Christian Science church or society in which I can publicly give thanks to God for all His goodness, and I feel the desire to continue this former activity, I am submitting the following testimony in the hope that it will be of help to others. A Christian Science lecturer I once heard said that there were some Scientists who were so full of the letter that they forgot to practice Christianity.

Christian Science found me while I was training in a Lutheran Deaconess Home, where I was serving because of my desire to help mankind. I was called home because of serious illness in my family, and when I arrived I found that they had turned to Christian Science as a last resort.

Because I have received so much joy, peace, and happiness since I have become interested in Christian Science, I feel that the least I can do is to express my gratitude to God for two healings I have had. The first healing was one of drinking.

For nearly twenty-five years I have been blessed by the teachings of Christian Science. Through my childhood and until early womanhood I was sickly, suffering each winter from bronchitis and a susceptibility to colds.

When sorely beset by an attack of influenza during the epidemic in 1919, I turned humbly to God for help. I could barely remember the Lord's Prayer—having prayed seldom since childhood—but I repeated the words silently to myself.

For many years I have been taught, guided, and healed by Christian Science. It was presented to me at a time of great mental and physical strain because of the illness of a member of my family.

Since my introduction to Christian Science God has been my only Physician. Often physical difficulties have been healed by the understanding that God is All-in-all and holy; that holiness is health, and that God's idea can reflect only health.

Christian Science came into our home through our mother when I was about five years old. From that time on, as far as I know, we never depended on anything else, and I have never known Science to fail.