Testimonies of Healing
I have profited so much by the Christian Science periodicals that I am happy to give my testimony. Following an attack of scarlet fever, I had a serious relapse and was sick for five years.
For over twenty years I have enjoyed the many privileges which come to a student of Christian Science. Following the reading for the first time of the chapter on Prayer in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, a deep conviction came to me that I had found the truth.
During the years that I have been a student of Christian Science, my blessings have been many, and I am deeply grateful for them. When a young girl I fell down a long flight of stairs and after that I suffered a great deal from internal difficulties.
I am very grateful that I was led to take up the study of Christian Science, and especially grateful for a healing I received about nine years ago. My legs became so inflamed and swollen that I could walk only with difficulty, and experienced severe pain.
Over thirty years ago I wrote of how I turned to Christian Science, and of my first healing. I should like to add now, after these many years, that the healing has been permanent.
My first impressions of Christian Science are drawn from experiences I had as a young girl when I was with my grandmother, who was an earnest student. At one time, her reading from the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.
Christian Science has flooded my life with peace and joy. It has given me the right concept of God and His creation, and has kept my family and me in splendid health for many years.
It is over thirty years since my wife and I began the study of Christian Science. We were then members of a church, the services of which were ritualistic, but we were seeking something more satisfying in a religion.
When I was in my teens, my parents took me to a Christian Science practitioner because they had been told about a healing of a business associate of my father's. I was physically and mentally exhausted, and my appearance was alarmingly changed as a result of exophthalmic goiter.
One summer I spent my vacation hiking along the beaches of Oregon. Shortly after I started, some sand got in my boot and caused a sore on the heel.