Testimonies of Healing
Many people ask, when thinking of trying Christian Science for the first time, if one has to have faith to be healed. From my own experience I answer "No.
My first healing, many years ago, occurred after a serious elevator accident. I was crushed and rendered unconscious, then fell a distance of twenty-two feet, landing on a steel rail.
In Isaiah ( 35:6-8 ) we read: "For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
A public expression of gratitude for Christian Science is appropriate at this time because of the many healings I have experienced. These healings are an example of the efficacy of God's law, or Christian Science.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I write this testimony. Several years ago I was healed of inward goiter.
My desire to study Christian Science came after I had left home and friends and had gone to live in a small new town in the reclaimed desert of the Northwest. My reaching out for something to save me from the pettiness and gossip of a small community resulted in my taking up the study of the Bible, and of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
It is with a deep sense of love and gratitude to God for His goodness that I submit this testimony. I have been a student of Christian Science for twelve years, and the blessings I have received have been manifold.
Gratitude for the encouragement and inspiration which I have received from the testimonies contained in The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel has awakened in me a desire to share with others some of the blessings which have come to me during the years that I have been a student of Christian Science. My husband and I began the serious study of this Science when our older son, now grown to manhood, was quite a small boy.
I Should like to tell of two experiences in which heartfelt, spontaneous gratitude resulted in healing. Soon after reaching young manhood I started a business.
Christian Science has healed me of sickness and released me from fear, and in grateful acknowledgment I offer this testimony in the hope that it will help someone in need. My introduction to this Science was through a Sentinel I took from a free literature box in a railroad station.