Testimonies of Healing
For many years I was not satisfied with the concept of God which had been taught me in my childhood. I often asked my mother why Christ Jesus did not heal us now as he healed people while he was on earth.
Words are inadequate to express my gratitude to God for giving Christian Science to this age through Mary Baker Eddy, whose purity and receptivity enabled her to be its Discoverer and Founder. Through its ministry I have experienced and witnessed the overcoming of all manner of discordant conditions.
Christian Science blessed me with healing shortly after I began to study it, and has continued to do so for twenty-five years. When I was in my early twenties I was told by a physician who came regularly to the office in which I worked that I had a goiter.
One memorable day, after I had been for six weeks a helpless cripple under the sentence of twelve to eighteen months more of suffering, I asked for a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.
I did not take up the study of Christian Science for healing. After reading the textbook.
The reading of the testimonies in the Christian Science publications has always been a great source of encouragement to me, so I am sending in my testimony in the hope that it may help someone as I have been helped. It is more than twenty years since I first became interested in Christian Science, and it has never failed when properly applied.
In June, 1938, while I was out riding with my niece, we met with an automobile accident, in which the car was overturned. I was taken unconscious to a hospital, where my condition was found to be very serious.
At this particular period, when we are finding the testimonies so very helpful and inspiring, I should like to give mine. I began the study of Christian Science with the desire to learn of its nature and teaching.
I want to add this testimony to the many already published in the Christian Science periodicals. I am grateful for the good unfolded to me in the light of Christian Science.
It is with a grateful heart that I testify to the healing power of Christian Science. Following a somewhat difficult time and considerable overwork, I had a severe nervous breakdown.