
Testimonies of Healing
Mary Baker Eddy , the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, refers to God as the "adorable One" (Science and Health, p. 16 ).
I have a great deal for which to thank God. Christian Science came into our home when I was six years of age.
I should like to share with other students of Christian Science the experience of protection and healing that my brother had while overseas in combat duty. He had been stationed in England for a year prior to the invasion of Normandy in June, 1944, and wrote that he hoped to prove good enough to "make the first team.
Through the concept of mother love taught in Christian Science, which our Leader so beautifully lived and exemplified in providing manifold opportunities for the spiritual welfare of her followers, comes the blessed privilege of contributing testimonies of healing at our Wednesday evening meetings and to our periodicals. My heart overflows with gratitude for this revelation of Truth stated by Mrs.
I am grateful for Christian Science and for the help it has been to me and to my family. Our children were born without the aid of a physician or the submission to any medical laws, either before or after the births.
" For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name" ( Ps. 33:21 ).
Many years ago I took a trip to the West Coast to visit an uncle. I knew that he was interested in some new kind of religion, but up to that time I had never even heard the name "Christian Science.
Many students of Christian Science, having proved in a degree the power of Truth over error, throughout some years of study and work, are prone to accept demonstrations and healings as a matter of course, and let it rest there. We are admonished, however, to share our mental treasures with those in need of help and encouragement.
[Original testimony in French] I had the privilege of being adopted and brought up by a mother who was a good Christian and who was devoted to me. In turn, I reciprocated in every way I could during her long illness.
I am so grateful that in Christian Science I have found the Comforter as promised by the Master, and that I have had the privilege of class instruction, which during the years has been a great support to me. For a time I lived on a farm, and was isolated from Christian Science activities, but I had my literature and the blessed Lesson-Sermon.