Testimonies of Healing

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.

For over forty years I have taken all my problems to Christian Science. It has healed me of sickness, trouble, and grief.

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.

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.

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.

It is with a deep and humble sense of grateful appreciation of the wonderful revelation of Truth given to us by our revered Leader, and her untiring struggle with the forces of evil, that I offer this testimony of the regenerating and healing power of Christian Science. Truly, I had reached "man's extremity" when I first learned of Christian Science.