Testimonies of Healing

In deep gratitude I should like to take advantage of the great privilege of giving a testimony and to relate how I came to Christian Science. Over three years ago I suddenly became sick.

Christian Science came to me at a time of great physical need. I had been through what is humanly called a nervous breakdown and was suffering from nervous strokes when I first heard of Christian Science.

My grandfather was healed through Christian Science of a severe case of rheumatism, which he had endured for many years. When my mother heard of this she was deeply impressed, and soon began to attend the church services in the small town where we lived that she might learn something of this new religion which healed.

Christian Science was presented to me nearly twenty years ago by one who proved to be a very dear friend, and at a time when I was facing what seemed to be a vacuous future. I had few, if any, resources from the mortal point of view.

I wish to give thanks for all the blessings I have received from my study of Christian Science. I have had great cause for rejoicing because of the unfoldment of spiritual truth which has made me a happier and more contented person.

I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude for Christian Science, and for the great help it is to me in my daily life. I came into Science because of illness.

With deep and sincere gratitude to our Father-Mother God; to Christ Jesus, our Saviour; and to our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, I offer this testimony of blessings received through the study and application of Christian Science. My earliest memories are of stories of the healings performed by Jesus; and later, through the study of the New Testament, the realization came that Christ is still our true healer, and with it the proof of this truth, through an instantaneous healing of warts on my hands and wrists.

Many years ago I walked out of the office of a well-known oculist in the Middle West with these words ringing in my ears: "I have fitted you with the best glasses available for the present condition of your eyes; there is no guarantee that these glasses will last you any certain time; they will have to be changed frequently and each time stronger lenses will be required, and there may come a time when even the most powerful will be inadequate. " My consciousness became so filled with fear and foreboding that the new glasses brought only pain and blurred vision.

In my need I turned to Christian Science for physical healing. I had been in ill health since I was a child, and suffered with several ailments.

Having been helped from time to time through the reading of the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals, I should like to take this opportunity of sharing some of the healings which have taken place in my experience since I took up the study of Christian Science. Many years ago, after hearing a lecture on Christian Science, I went the following day to a Christian Science Reading Room to borrow the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.