Testimonies of Healing

As the years of study and demonstration of Christian Science go by, I grow increasingly grateful for the progress made in letting God govern my life. The freedom which has come to me from learning more and more to leave plans and their outcome to God is beyond any I previously dreamed of.

Christian Science was first brought to my attention by a neighbor, who one Sunday invited me to accompany her to church. The invitation came as a surprise, for I had told her that I was not interested in church attendance, but I accepted because I loved her.

My first experience in Christian Science occurred in 1925, when a member of my family was given no hope by physicians and specialists of ever being well or being able to return home. At that time, as a last resort, I was asked to give Christian Science a trial, which I did in good faith.

In the quarter of a century that I have been endeavoring to demonstrate the truth, as revealed in Christian Science, I have had many healings, although I have had few serious illnesses during that period. My good health I attribute to the operation of Truth in my consciousness.

From early childhood I have had contact with Christian Scientists, but for several years I considered myself opposed to Christian Science. Its teaching that God does not create evil, however, was something that always stayed with me.

I have derived so much good from the testimonies in our periodicals that I wish to give mine, with the hope that it may help others. As our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings I have received as a student of Christian Science. I first took up Christian Science to refute what I thought was unjust reprimand on the part of an aunt, who had been helping my mother in Science.

Christian Science has been the only physician in our home for more than twenty-five years, and many and varied have been the problems solved through its beneficent influence. Within the first year after turning to Science I was healed of the need of wearing glasses, of headaches, constipation, and nervousness accompanied by an almost overwhelming fear—fear of the future, of being alone, of meeting people, and of the darkness.

I have proved in my own experience that love and gratitude are a sure defense against error of every kind. I should like to tell two incidents that illustrate this.

In 1916 Christian Science was presented to me and I read the textbook eagerly because my need was great. My daughter, then ten years old, had suffered since babyhood from ozena, a so-called incurable disease, and had been given up to die.