Testimonies of Healing

In the Preface to our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read the wonderful words ( p. vii ), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.

It is always a joy for Christian Scientists to bear witness to the healing power of the truth as revealed by our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. For the last twenty years my life has been proof that Christian Science does heal.

Before I heard of Christian Science, two specialists had told me that my eyesight was so defective that I should always have to wear glasses. After reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, for a few months, I began to see that everything which God has made is perfect; that He is the only creator, and that He preserves and protects His creation.

Twelve years ago Christian Science was first presented to me. At this time I was in a very depressed state of thought over the passing on of my mother.

In gratitude for what Christian Science did for me about fifteen years ago, I wish to give my testimony in the hope that it may help others. I received a shock which mentally deranged me for about a year.

It is with a sincere desire to share my blessings with others that I testify to the healing efficacy of Christian Science. This Science was presented to me by a medical nurse at a time when I not only was suffering from a so-called infectious disease, but was in great mental darkness, suspected of being a mild form of insanity.

Previous to my healing in Christian Science, I was seldom without a cigarette in my hand and to me the healing of this habit was very wonderful because I was so beautifully protected from the questioning of friends, not one of them noticing until weeks afterward that I was not smoking. I always knew that it would be necessary to overcome this habit if I wished to progress in Science, but I was so completely in bondage to it that when I attempted to stop it— which I did several times for a week or so, and always with a practitioner working for me—I could not seem to think intelligently or drive a car correctly.

In the early '80's an aunt of mine wrote to a Christian Science practitioner in a distant city, stating that she had been operated upon twice for a cancerous growth, that it had returned in a worse and more painful form, and that she had become, because of her suffering, a sad victim of the drug habit. Through absent treatment this aunt received immediate relief and was completely healed within several weeks.

My father began the study of Christian Science when I was a child. Previous to his investigation of this Science, he resolutely denied the existence of God, and he thought that to have arrived at such a conclusion was indicative of very profound and logical thinking.

Gratitude urges me to write this testimony of the healings that have come to me through Christian Science. Many years ago I was very ill.