Testimonies of Healing

Over five years ago I was greatly hurt by a close friend's actions. For about three years after that I suffered in many ways, namely: much sickness and weakness, dizziness, severe headaches, and loss of weight.

For twenty years I have enjoyed and been grateful for the testimonies which appear in our periodicals. Many times they have encouraged and helped me to press on to victory when tempted by some form of error.

" To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings. " This first sentence in the Preface to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was clung to some years ago when my material, worldly sense of things was being shaken by adversity, and a complacency born of confidence in personal ability was gradually being changed to an understanding that "the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

I desire to make public acknowledgment of a healing which occurred some eighteen years ago. One Sunday evening my husband and I, with some relatives, were driving home from a near-by town, when the sudden application of the emergency brake caused the car to swerve into a ditch, hurling the occupants out on the roadside.

Twenty-four years ago my sister began studying Christian Science, but although we had been very close to each other she never mentioned the subject. This aroused my interest, and I tried to read the textbook.

I can truthfully say that I am grateful for all that Christian Science has done for me. Existence would seem meaningless and poor indeed if it were not for the comfort, guidance, abundance, and protecting power which Christian Science has shown me that God has for all His children.

At a very early age, I rejected the thought of a personal God. My parents allowed me to think for myself where religion was concerned, and I began to search for an explanation of the supreme intelligence in which I believed.

I did not take up Christian Science for healing, although I needed it very much. I had been an invalid for three years with what the physicians called consumption.

I shall always be grateful for the thorough grounding in the Scriptures which I received as a member of an orthodox church. That foundation, however, proved insufficient to withstand the storms of doubt, criticism, and temptation that assailed my early manhood, and thus a period of infidelity followed.

I should like to express my gratitude for the many blessings that have come to me and to my family in the ten years that I have been studying Christian Science. This truth was presented to me at a time when I was in a very critical condition.