Testimonies of Healing

With grateful appreciation of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, I wish to offer this testimony. Throughout a childhood spent in a religious home and devoted to the study of the Bible, I sought for Truth, but did not find it until I was practically forced into Christian Science because of an overwhelming sense of failure and mental depression.

It is my desire to tell others that peace, joy, and the consciousness of God's presence will replace the fear and despair of the darkest human experience when help from Christian Science is enlisted. This was first proved to me after the best efforts of medical doctors had failed to heal our young son of pneumonia.

Christian Science came to me about fifteen years ago when a search, through various philosophies, for God and a reason for an apparently meaningless existence, had proved futile. The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.

Since early childhood I have relied upon Christian Science in every situation, even when death seemed near. It has healed me of many diseases, enabled me to overcome false traits of character, and, under very difficult circumstances, to obtain an education.

My praises ring out for Christian Science. What I have of peace, hope, health, courage, and joy I owe to the understanding of God which I have gained from the study of this Science.

With a grateful heart I should like to testify and acknowledge that I have been privileged to experience a series of most glorious proofs of the power of divine Love. "Hope, O poor soul, hope, and be of good courage.

Before I became a student of Christian Science I had become downcast and despondent, a veritable picture of dejection. For a period of four years everything I undertook failed, so that finally I could see nothing but disaster ahead, and knew not which way to turn to avoid it.

" Freely ye have received, freely give. " For some time I have wished to send a testimony of the healing power of Christian Science, hoping that it will give help and encouragement to others.

The prophet Isaiah foretold the appearing of the Messiah, which would give "beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. " It was in this manner that Christian Science came to minister to me when I was in deep sorrow.

In the year 1919, through a stranger whom I met at that time, I became interested in Christian Science. My interest has never waned.