Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science came into our family with its healing message more than half a century ago. We were living in the West, in a section of the country which was primitive, and where even the bare necessities of living were not abundant.

Christian Science has brought me so much real happiness and contentment that I feel I should no longer delay a written expression of my gratitude and love for its teachings. When it was first presented to me I did not accept Christian Science, and I had in my possession a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy for several years before taking up the study of it in earnest.

" Gratitude is much more than a verbal expression of thanks. Action expresses more gratitude than speech.

In the year 1910, while attending a picnic with some friends, I first learned of Christian Science. We had been swimming and playing games, and when the time came for luncheon I made the remark that I was very tired, and asked a little four-year-old boy if he also was not tired.

Christian Science came to me in an hour of great need. It came to me as an answer to prayer for something beyond and outside of my human selfhood.

I am most grateful for the joy and beauty that have been revealed to me through the study of Christian Science, for these are the qualities of thought that first attracted me to it. And I have discovered that it is all a matter of exchanging false concepts for right ideas, and that these ideas are ever present.

I am truly happy and grateful to have a knowledge of Christian Science, which has opened to me the way of Life eternal. For almost six years I have had the great privilege of accepting God as my only and ever-present help; and since I have studied Christian Science I have had great blessings, for which I feel it is my duty to give this testimony.

Until about ten years ago my concept of God was very vague. A dear relative spoke many times to my mother and to me of Christian Science, indicating to us that its teachings had satisfactorily solved many problems for her by giving her the right concept of God and His creation.

The testimonies in The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel have been such a source of inspiration to me that for a long time I have wanted to contribute my bit. I first became interested in Christian Science over thirty years ago when my mother was healed of a serious ailment after an operation that had left her worse than before.

When a girl of fifteen, I witnessed the healing of a close and dear friend of what was termed chronic neuritis. I later learned that the healing had taken place while the sufferer was reading "Unity of Good" by Mary Baker Eddy.