Testimonies of Healing
Having received much encouragement and help from the testimonies in our periodicals, I feel prompted to add mine in the hope that it may be helpful to others who are seeking the truth. While I did not turn to Christian Science for physical healing, but rather for the understanding of a God to love and not to fear, needless to say I have had many such healings and am sincerely grateful for them.
St. Paul wrote in his second epistle to the Corinthians, "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
I was healed by Christian Science treatment before I had ever read the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.
It is with a very great sense of gratitude and humility that I give this testimony of the healing power of Christian Science. Several years ago, when entering a car, I slipped and the starting of the car threw me backward, resulting in a badly injured foot.
Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 182, ) "The demands of God appeal to thought only.
A sense of profound gratitude impels me to relate a recent healing of a case of mushroom poisoning. A few hours after eating the mushrooms, I was stricken with a burning pain in the throat.
Gratefully and reverently I desire publicly to express my heartfelt gratitude to my Father-Mother God, and to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, for all that Christian Science has done and is doing for me. When I first became interested in Christian Science, I had been a patient for four weeks in a hospital, where I was under observation and treatment preparatory to undergoing an operation.
This testimony is given in gratitude for the many blessings and for the happiness I have received through Christian Science. About seventeen years ago my daughter became sickly, and for about four years she went from physician to physician without receiving help.
My introduction to the study of Christian Science was through a healing of nervous exhaustion and heart trouble. I had been under materia medica for about five years, constantly growing worse, till at last, young as I was, life did not seem worth living.
Twenty-five years ago I first witnessed a remarkable proof of the healing power of Christian Science. A near relative, an elderly lady who was living with us at the time, had been suffering for years from asthma and heart trouble.