Testimonies of Healing

Christian Science was brought to my notice more than thirty years ago through the quick healing of my mother. Knowing the distressing physical and mental conditions under which she had labored so long with no relief from physicians, I was convinced that if Christian Science could heal her it could also heal me.

Christian Science is one of my greatest blessings. I have learned that God never forsakes us if we trust Him, for we are told, "It shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

It is with a heart filled with gratitude to God for the life of Christ Jesus and of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, the revelator of Truth to this age, that I write this testimony. All my life I had been seeking Truth, but did not realize it until Christian Science came into my experience.

Gratitude for Christian Science compels me to write this testimony. It is now close on thirty years since I first went to a Christian Science Sunday School, and for many years' regular attendance there I am most grateful; it laid foundations which nothing can wear away.

" Many , O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. " How, indeed, can I declare them all! I was privileged to attend the Christian Science Sunday School for several years, at home and abroad, where I learned to apply what I understood to overcome headaches and other difficulties.

It was for peace of mind, rather than for physical healing, that I turned to Christian Science; but during the early years of my study, sick headaches, curvature of the spine, chronic throat trouble, and many minor ailments vanished. Our first daughter was a delicate child, under the physician's care much of the time, but her pure thought was receptive to the truth, through which she at once became well and strong.

Christian Science reveals good as rapidly as we accept it—a fact proved in my experience. As this is written, it is eighteen months since I first heard a lecture on Christian Science.

Christian Science has been the only physician in our family for over a generation, and I wish to write of some of the benefits I have experienced through its application. I did not become interested in Christian Science through physical healing for myself, but because I saw other members of my family healed of chronic dyspepsia, astigmatism, eczema, nervous prostration, and many minor ailments.

With gratitude filling my heart for the Christian Science Sunday School, I should like to tell of a healing I had as a direct result of the teachings our children receive there. When my eyes were opened to what Christian Science really is, my youngest daughter was seventeen years of age, very active in an orthodox Sunday school, and as prejudiced against Christian Science as I had been; but after I had studied Christian Science for a few months, she expressed a desire to attend the Christian Science Sunday School, and she seemed very responsive to the teachings received there.

On page 390 of "Science and Health with key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read, "It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony. " I am grateful for some understanding of Christian Science, which has enabled me to recognize God, good, as the steadying influence in my life.