Testimonies of Healing

"They cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

Christian Science has not only healed me of a malady pronounced incurable by materia medica, but it has also given me a wonderful vision of my true selfhood as spiritual man, made in God's image. The disease from which I was suffering was called arthritis, and there were times when I could hardly walk and my right hand was practically incapacitated.

I should like to take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to God, to Christ Jesus, our Wayshower, and to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for all the blessings I have received through the teachings of Christian Science. After I had suffered for many years and had been under the care of several doctors, seeking for health and happiness but finding none, Christian Science found me.

On page 265 of "Miscellaneous Writings," our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says, "Whosoever understands a single rule in Science, and demonstrates its Principle according to rule, is master of the situation. " Many times, when going through what to the material senses have seemed to be very deep waters, the contemplation of this statement has been a veritable life preserver to me.

From earliest childhood questions concerning religion perplexed me. Being of Jewish birth, I found it confusing to have a line drawn between Jew and Christian; and I longed for one religion which would embrace all mankind.

I first took notice of Christian Science twenty-six years ago, when I came in contact with a very dear friend of long standing whom I had not seen for five or six years. When I asked her what had wrought such a change in her life, evidenced in happiness and health, she said it was Christian Science, and that if I would read Science and Health by Mrs.

Christian Science was brought to my attention some twenty-five years ago by my mother, while I was taking a course in science and engineering at a university. As this religion contradicted practically all the theories on which the physics of that day was based, I did not receive it at all kindly.

A number of years ago, while I was employed as a stenographer in a real estate office, I became deaf in the left ear. This condition lasted for a period of one year.

For anyone born and brought up in Christian Science, as I have been, there are so many reasons for gratitude that one testimony seems inadequate. A recent experience has been so beautiful to me that I should like to report it very gratefully.

About thirteen years ago, during a time of great stress, Christian Science was presented to me, but I did not become interested in it, because I thought its study required more time than I could give. The seed had been planted, however; and when about seven years ago I came to this state a stranger, in my loneliness I attended a Wednesday testimony meeting a few days after my arrival.