Testimonies of Healing

With love, joy, and deep gratitude I should like to testify to the wonderful healings I have received since becoming a student of Christian Science. In the early spring of 1925 my husband wished to take my daughter and me to the opening of a new building which had been erected, and which he had passed every day during its erection.

When I was a young girl I was asked to read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. This I began to do, thinking that when I had read it the one desiring me to do so would be satisfied and would trouble me no more.

After all the good I have received since I became a student of Christian Science, I feel it my duty and privilege to send this testimony. In 1919, while living in the United States, I received my first healing, though at that time I knew nothing at all of Christian Science.

I desire to express gratitude for Christian Science and for the many good things—health, joy, freedom, harmony, peace of mind, and many other treasures—that have come to us through this Science. Our family have enjoyed many physical healings, including those of an abscess in the ear, tonsillitis, sick headaches, constipation, and coughs.

About thirteen years ago I was very unhappy. My sister, who was interested in Christian Science, asked me to come to her house one afternoon and stay with the children while she went to town.

I lift up my heart in love and gratitude to God for His love and blessings to me and mine. We have been healed of many diseases, discords, and unhappiness.

I wish to express my appreciation and deep gratitude for Christian Science. When it found me I was discouraged and hopeless.

Recently my attention was attracted to the verse in Psalms which reads, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;" and I questioned, Have I taken advantage of each right opportunity to "say so"? One definition of "redeemed" given by a dictionary which applies to this use of the word is "to free from bondage or slavery by paying a ransom or price. " When I consider the slavery which held me in bondage from girlhood into early womanhood and how the shackles were removed by the light of Truth and Love that shone upon me as I studied Science and Health, I am sure that only disobedience can keep me from testifying in a way that may bring hope and encouragement to others, namely, through the opportunity offered by the Christian Science periodicals.

About six months before I took up Christian Science I had gone through a very serious operation, but had not fully recovered when the doctors said that in order to get relief I should have to undergo another operation immediately. They felt rather doubtful of the outcome, on account of the physical condition I was in at that time.

For years I suffered from a nervous breakdown, and finally an increasing sense of melancholia made life unendurable for me. It became impossible for me to earn my living, and I was filled with a great fear that I might some day be taken to an institution.