Testimonies of Healing

My continued gratitude for the healing of the effects of an accident experienced over two years ago prompts me to give this testimony. In my early teens I began to attend a Christian Science Sunday School, and as I grew older I endeavored to make progress in the understanding of Christian Science.

I had prayed earnestly to know who I am, what I am, and where I am; and one night, while I was trying to see the perfect man for someone for whom I was doing Science work, it dawned on me that that which I called "myself" was not "I" at all, nor any part of my real selfhood. The whole physical picture called man was a very poor counterfeit of the perfect idea—man, as God's image and likeness.

It is with sincere gratitude that I give this testimony of the benefits received through the application of Christian Science. We had been studying Christian Science for a very short time when our small son, then three years old, became very ill, and not knowing a great deal of the truth of Christian Science we were very fearful and sent for a child specialist.

It is high time that I openly acknowledge my great debt of gratitude to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and to the Cause of Christian Science. Some thirteen years ago a business opportunity came to me through old friends from another city.

It is more than twenty years since I was healed by Christian Science of chronic abscesses of the ears and catarrhal inflammation of the inner ears, for which I had been treated by some of the best physicians and specialists in this country, without being cured. When the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was offered to me by a friend who was a Christian Scientist, I consented to read it in the hope of finding out the truth about God.

I give sincere thanks to our Father-Mother God, who led me to find the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Through the study of this textbook I have exchanged the false concept of human will and pressure for the knowledge that I am led by God, eternal Love.

When a very young girl in high school I attended my first Christian Science lecture and instantly recognized the logic and obvious correctness of the truths there presented. My parents had been devoutly religious, and their entire lives were governed by a beautiful faith in and love of God, and I was very grateful to be able to reconcile my natural religious sense with this new presentation of God as divine Principle, Love, Truth, Spirit.

" Freely ye have received, freely give. " For the many wonderful blessings I have received through Christian Science I am sending this testimony, with the hope that someone else may be blessed by reading it.

I am so full of gratitude to God for the many blessings which Christian Science has brought me, especially in the literature established for our daily use by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, that I feel a deep desire to contribute a testimony, hoping it may encourage others to press on, in spite of seeming obstacles in the way. From the age of sixteen, I was discontented and unhappy in my home, as well as in my study of music.

With my sincere wish to express gratitude for Christian Science and what it has done and is doing for me, I give this testimony. I hope that it may in some way help someone along the road to true happiness.