Testimonies of Healing
Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p.
Christian Science is the greatest blessing that ever came into my life. It found me in a very depressed and discouraged condition, confined to my bed a great portion of the time, suffering with stomach trouble and hemorrhages.
Gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for her wonderful teaching impels me to speak of at least one of the healings I have experienced through the understanding of the truth as taught by her in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
I wish to express my deep appreciation of the many blessings my family and I have received through the study of Christian Science and the reading of the literature. I should like to tell of a healing our little boy had a few years ago.
Toward the end of an inspiring article entitled "Loyal Christian Scientists" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read ( Miscellaneous Writings, p. 279 ), "It is the love of God, and not the fear of evil, that is the incentive in Science.
Several years ago our daughter, then a little girl, asked her mother, "Can we not go to Auntie's church?" Lovingly it was arranged and they went. A few weeks later an opportunity was again given, and I also went to hear a Sunday service in a Christian Science church.
Several years ago a loving friend handed me a Christian Science Sentinel, and told me to read the testimonies. I did so and became interested, for I reasoned that if there was in the world today the truth that could make people well and happy, I wanted to know about it.
For over forty years I have taken all my problems to Christian Science. It has healed me of sickness, trouble, and grief.
I am most grateful for Christian Science. Since coming into this wonderful religion of love I have been healed of bad head colds that usually began in early fall and lasted until spring, leaving me much depleted.
After all the healings and blessings which have come my way through Christian Science, some through my small understanding, others through a practitioner's help, I feel it my privilege to acknowledge some of them. After the passing on of a small daughter in 1912, kind neighbors advised me to send for the German translation of Science and Health.