Testimonies of Healing

It has been my privilege to have had the benefits of Christian Science since early childhood and for this I shall always be grateful to our Father-Mother God. The truth of being has unfolded naturally, and as a result my childhood was a very sweet and healthful one, and I never experienced any so-called children's diseases.

Through a healing of paralysis of the nerves I became interested in Christian Science twenty-six years ago. From that time until a short while ago I accepted Christian Science simply as a means of freeing myself from any discordant condition in which I might find myself.

Many healings have taken place in our home since my first testimony was published in the Christian Science Sentinel of June 13, 1931, and I should like to relate two of them. On my return home one afternoon I found our son suffering from a badly swollen and discolored ankle.

Many years of academic study had given me little equipment with which to face the trying ordeal of seeing my husband suffer bravely for many months in spite of the generous, kindly efforts of members of the medical profession to help him. It was not until about two years after he had passed on that my thought was sufficiently humble for Truth to dawn in consciousness, and its radiant freshness dispelled the dark shadows of resentment, intense fear, and ignorance of spiritual reality.

I wish to add my expression of gratitude to my wife's testimony. The reports of instances of protection and healing which have occurred in the present war always kindle my flame of gratitude for Christian Science.

Christian Science was first presented in our home when I was a child of ten. My father had been ill with rheumatism for a number of years, suffering so much pain that he spent many nights in a chair before the fire under the influence of a drug.

I am very grateful for Christian Science, grateful to God, and to Mrs. Eddy, who was so courageous and unselfish in giving us Science and Health, the "key" which has unlocked the treasures of the Bible for all mankind.

My heart overflows with gratitude to God for Christian Science. Because I have proved in my own experience its efficacy in healing and restoring happiness, I joyfully add my testimony to that of thousands of others who also have found that through the application of the teachings of Christ Jesus, as explained and taught in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, all manner of ills can be cured.

For the joy and peace which Christian Science has brought to me, and for what it is doing for the world today, I am most grateful to God. I knew little about Christian Science when I had my first healing.

Although I had the blessings of a few years' experience in the Christian Science Sunday School, it was not until almost twelve years later that the seed sown there began to bear fruit. I turned wholeheartedly to the study of Christian Science after I had been healed through it of an unsightly skin disease that covered my whole face.