Testimonies of Healing

Since the time Christian Science came into my life and I have been better able to satisfy my hunger for the truth, through studying the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, I have had many physical and mental blessings.

Often when reading the testimonies in our periodicals, I have felt that I should acknowledge what Christian Science has done for me. For over twenty years it has been my only recourse in time of need.

For many years I have wanted to write a testimony of what Christian Science has done for me, and it is with the sincere hope that what I write may be of help to others that I now send this testimony. I knew nothing about Christian Science, but as I had a brother who was very ill, friends whom I was visiting advised that we try it.

Although given every advantage that education, beautiful surroundings, and religious teaching could offer, I was still, after more than thirty years, groping for a satisfying concept of life, one conforming with the teachings of Christ Jesus. In the summer of 1925 my prayer was answered.

Before becoming interested in Christian Science, I had reached a stage of cynicism and agnosticism. I had been reared in an orthodox church, but, being dissatisfied with its teachings, I went to many other orthodox churches, then delved into the study of human philosophies, unity, theosophy, occultism, and socalled metaphysics, and took special courses in psychology, only to find "confusion worse confounded.

With a heart full of gratitude I wish to tell of a few of my experiences in Christian Science. Over seventeen years ago I was in bed with an ulcerated throat, and after I had used material remedies without result, my mother, who was studying Christian Science, advised me to give it a trial.

It has been my blessed privilege to have been reared in Christian Science and to have attended the Sunday school up to the age of twenty. I should like to share some of my experiences of healing.

I feel as though I must not let another season pass without expressing in writing my gratitude to God, to our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and to the Cause of Christian Science. In the winter of 1914 I purchased my first copy of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.

For over seventeen years, Christian Science has been my guide in solving financial, domestic, and physical problems. Through the realization and application of Truth, a position in a line of work for which I was equipped was given me at a time when it was necessary for me to put my shoulder to the wheel.

Although my parents were atheists, I was sent to Sunday school. In my girlhood the Bible gave me inspiration, comfort, guidance, and strength; and in my teens I spent a year training for missionary work at a Bible institute in this city.