Testimonies of Healing

St. Paul says, "Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Many years ago, after submitting to an operation, I became greatly depleted and unable to retain nourishment of any kind. I was fed artificially for four or five days, and since the condition became worse instead of better, a second operation was to be performed.

It is with an ever-increasing sense of gratitude for the many blessings I have received through the study of Christian Science that I give this testimony. In the year 1927, I was told that I must submit to another major operation for pelvic ovaritis and fibroid tumor, or I could not expect to live for more than a year.

I am very grateful for all that Christian Science has done for me, and for all the healings our children have had. For several years I had been very much prejudiced against Christian Science because of an erroneous explanation which someone had given me of its teachings regarding the Bible.

Several years ago, when I was in great darkness and distress, God answered my prayer for light and gently led me into Christian Science. After leaving a hospital, where I had spent many months, I fell down a stairway and was severely injured.

Many times I have felt the urge to submit for publication an expression of my gratitude for healings received and for the blessings that Christian Science has brought into my life. When I first took up the study of Christian Science, I found it gave me a sense of peace and assurance.

When I first learned of Christian Science through the example of a patient and loving student of Christian Science who was my associate on a newspaper, I was self-willed, temperamental, and unteachable. In my search for truth I had dissociated myself from an orthodox church and investigated theosophy, hypnotism, spiritualism, and new-thought.

Christian Science was first presented to me in 1914 by an associate in the office where I was employed. At first I was not at all interested in it, but soon this friend offered me some of the periodicals, which I began to read.

About twenty-three years ago, I became very uneasy with regard to the religion in which I had been brought up, and which I had accepted almost unquestioningly. My earliest years were spent in India, where my father, an Episcopal clergyman, was engaged in army chaplaincy and educational and pastoral work.

Before I attended a Christian Science service, over twenty years ago, I had never found a religion that brought me peace of mind. From my earliest childhood I seemed to be in bondage to every known fear.