Testimonies of Healing

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.

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.

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.

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.