Testimonies of Healing

This testimony is sent with the desire that it may encourage those, whose healings seem slow, to press on. I have been seeking the truth for about four years and have received a number of healings and many blessings.

For ten years I was sick. I bought patent medicines by the case, twelve bottles at a time, and tried many other cures, without help.

These days of unemployment and readjustment in the business world frequently remind me of an instance which occurred the year after my graduation from high school. After being employed for about a year, I was greatly disturbed when told that the business had been offered for sale and that my services would no longer be required.

" Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind," writes our Leader on page 291 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and on page 587 of the same volume among other definitions of "heaven" she gives "harmony," "spirituality," "bliss. " Everyone who has experienced healing of mortal discord through the application of Christian Science has had, in some measure, glimpses of heaven and its glories.

Three years ago I took up the study of Christian Science in earnest. At that time the doctor gave me up to hopeless invalidism, naming my diseases as hardening of the arteries, heart trouble, and high blood pressure—a cheerful outlook for an active woman of forty-nine years who was operating a tea room! After I left the last doctor's office I was just able to reach a Christian Science Reading Room and call a practitioner, who took up the work for me, and was very patient, kind, and charitable.

When Christian Science was first brought to my attention I was a servant to many false appetites, including the desire for strong drink, gambling, and profanity. Within a period of six months this triad of errors yielded to the truth as taught in Christian Science.

I grew up in an environment of modern Protestantism, which gave me a cold and materialistic concept of the supernatural. My point of view was that of course miracles could not occur; for the rest I lived in pleasant circumstances, since our family was happy and prosperous.

It is indeed with a deep sense of gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy, who so lovingly and unselfishly made it possible for us to realize God's ever-availability, which she so clearly teaches in Christian Science, that I should like to testify to a healing I received in 1929. I had a severe case of eczema, which had kept me in bondage for thirty years.

I should like to express my gratitude for the many healings and blessings I have experienced through the study and application of Christian Science. My first healing—that of indigestion, sallow skin, and constipation, which I endured for a number of years—came through reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

It is with great joy and gratitude to God and Christian Science that I give this testimony. In 1914, through the recommendation of a friend, I purchased the Christian Science textbook, and while reading it I was healed of neuralgic headaches, constipation, and stomach trouble.