Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

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.

"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.