Testimonies of Healing

In the Bible we read ( Ps. 145:18 ), "The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

" But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" ( John 14:26 ). When Christian Science found me I was very confused about God.

With sincere thankfulness to God, I submit this testimony in the hope that it will bring courage and expectancy of good to others. I am very grateful for Christian Science, for consecrated Christian Scientists, and for practitioners who hold up our hands as Aaron and Hur held up Moses' hands (Ex.

I have received so many blessings from the study and application of Christian Science that I should be most ungrateful if I delayed longer to share some of my healings with others. A number of years ago I began to read Science through curiosity.

Great joy came to me when I first began the study of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

In explaining the incident of Moses' handling of the serpent that appeared when he cast down the rod, Mrs. Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health ( p.

I should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science. My first healing was of a misconception of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy.

My chief desire in writing this testimony is to help others. I should like to relate a healing that I had ten years ago through the help of practitioners.

The understanding that man lives in Mind and the application of this truth as taught in Christian Science were an unfailing source of inspiration and protection to me while flying in combat with the Army Air Forces in Europe in 1942, and I wish to express my profound gratitude. I read the Lesson-Sermon daily, and before each take-off realized that there is no conflict or warfare in the spiritual universe, where man perpetually dwells as the image and likeness of God.

In my early childhood Christian Science instantaneously healed my mother of a spinal difficulty with which she had been born. Various physicians throughout the country, including her half brother, had said she could never be well, predicting blindness within six months if she lived.