Testimonies of Healing

For twenty-eight years Christian Science has met my every need, and I do not have words to express my deep gratitude for the protection afforded me during these years. My first healing was instantaneous and came soon after I began to read our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

I wish to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me, and is doing for all mankind. I first became interested in Christian Science in 1895.

It has long been my desire to express gratitude through these pages for what the truth, as revealed by Mary Baker Eddy, has brought to me. More than twelve years ago I had a physical healing.

With profound gratitude I express my appreciation of Christian Science for what it has done and what it is doing for me. By reading the precious works of Mary Baker Eddy, particularly Science and Health, my life has been changed to one of peace and happiness.

I am so grateful to Christian Science for its healing power and for the spiritual uplifting I have experienced for the past thirty years, during which time I have relied solely on its truths to meet every need, that I wish to contribute my testimony. One summer day I stepped hurriedly onto a friend's piazza, which was wet and slippery from the rain.

Christian Science came to me in a time of great need. In 1929 I began the study of it for a physical healing.

It is a great privilege to be able to say that through the power of God, as revealed in Christian Science, I have been healed of a severe physical condition, have demonstrated progress in business, and have experienced a large measure of transformation "by the renewing of [ my] mind. " Several years ago I found myself a victim of the carnal mind, manifested in extreme indigestion, chronic stomach and bowel disorders, frequent and severe headaches, loss of many pounds of weight, insomnia, and, finally, a complete nervous collapse which took place in my office.

I first heard of Christian Science through picking up a copy of The Christian Science Journal in a local library. I had always been a delicate child, and at this time I was in deep trouble, having been ill for over a year through the effects of a tram accident.

The truth of two statements in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy was proved to me in my first physical healing. These statements are: "The procuring cause and foundation of all sickness is fear, ignorance, or sin" ( p.

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for what it has done for me. Over three years ago I was stricken with what appeared to be a bad case of rheumatism, and was forced to quit my job; and this left me with no material income.