Testimonies of Healing
About fifteen years ago our family physician had made arrangements for the removal of tonsils from two of our children and myself. This seemed necessary, as the children had continuous sore throat, and one of them had eye trouble to the extent that a noted eye specialist had told us that the eyes would never be right until the tonsils were removed.
Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says in " The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 164), "What is gratitude but a powerful camera obscura , a thing focusing light where love, memory, and all within the human heart is present to manifest light.
Christian Science has awakened me to see and understand something of the grand inheritance that is mine as a child of the one Father-Mother God. For this awakening I am grateful.
Christian Science is the greatest blessing in my life. I was very slow about accepting this means of understanding ever-present Love, which I needed more than anything else.
I wish humbly to express my gratitude for Christian Science. It means everything to me.
In loving gratitude I desire to bear testimony to the fact that Christian Science heals. When, in desperation, I sought Christian Science, all I knew about it was that it purported to be a healing method devoid of drugs.
I am very happy to be one of the thousands who are having life "more abundantly" because Christian Science is making known and available the truth which Jesus promised would make us free. About ten years ago the availability of God's power to heal the sick was made known to me.
In 1913 a very dear friend introduced Christian Science to my mother, through whose study of this beautiful truth several of our family came into Christian Science. I studied for quite a few years before I was really ready to seek "first the kingdom of God," but after a great deal of physical and mental agony, I was ready for this great truth.
About seventeen years ago I began to long to know more about God, and visited churches of different denominations; but not one of these gave me that for which I was longing. Soon after that a friend of mine lost her husband at sea, and I was dreading meeting her again, for I pictured her in a state of complete despair.
When I was in great physical need a friend asked if he might send me some Christian Science literature. I consented, and after reading a copy of the Sentinel I got in touch with a practitioner.