Testimonies of Healing

I feel impelled to express my gratitude at this time for the Christian Science Wartime Activities and to the Christian Science Wartime Ministers in the various camps throughout the country. I should like to express gratitude for a couple of healings I experienced during my training period in the Army.

Through the study and application of Christian Science, it has been my great joy to experience many healings and to feel "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding. " My first healing took place a few months after I began attending the Christian Science Sunday School.

I am very grateful for this opportunity to express gratitude for the many blessings I have received through the study and application of Christian Science. I can truly say that Christian Science heals.

My first introduction to Christian Science came when, as a boy, I was enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School early in the year 1908. For a number of years later on, owing to environment and association, I did not take a very active interest in Science.

In 1908 I felt as Job did when Eliphaz, speaking of God, said to him, "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace. " Job could only cry out in answer, "Oh that I knew where I might find him!" When I first turned to this truth for help, I was in extreme distress.

On page 1 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy has written, "Desire is prayer. " As I look back on my healing, I realize that I desired truth even more than healing, but thought, because I was taking medicine, that I would be a hypocrite to study Christian Science.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 3 ) Mary Baker Eddy asks this question: "Are we really grateful for the good already received?" In reply to that question I wish to tell of the bountiful blessings I have received through the application of Christian Science.

A hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal ( No. 249 ) reads: Our gratitude is riches, Complaint is poverty.

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science. About ten years ago I was led to take up its study for the healing of a spinal trouble that I had had since childhood.

It is with humble gratitude to God for His wonderful blessings that I send this testimony. For a long time I had been troubled with varicose veins, and some months before I heard of Christian Science an ulcerated condition appeared on my leg.