Testimonies of Healing

I want to give thanks for all the testimonies I have been privileged to read, for they have meant much to me during the past fifteen years; and now I, too, should like to share with others the blessings that have come to me through the study of Christian Science. The truth has operated in our home to prove the nothingness of the following errors: tonsillitis, severe colds, grippe, poison ivy, ingrowing nail, extreme nervousness, piles, smallpox, sprained ankle, and a broken friendship; also a stolen car was returned.

More than forty years ago Christian Science came into my childhood home through the healing of my mother of Bright's disease in its last stage. As a result of this healing my father, my mother, and their eight children took up the study of this Science.

In 1916, during the war, I was wounded in the head by a bullet, which caused me considerable suffering. I turned to many doctors for help, but received only temporary relief.

Before learning the truths of Christian Science I believed it to be just another church wherein we could worship "the unknown God. " After exhausting all medical science, submitting to several operations, both major and minor, trying electrical treatments, osteopathy, baths, and rest cure, I was no better, but rather grew worse.

My first interest in Christian Science came at a time when injustice in a business problem was attempted against me. I tried every other means, but to no avail.

Since I have been a student of Christian Science it has been proved to me that any kind of human ill can be dispelled by the truth as understood in Christian Science; and I am especially grateful that I have been able to prove in my own experience that grief is no more difficult to heal through Christian Science than any other woe, although it seems to human sense that time alone can heal the heart of the fear for and loss of departed loved ones. Returning home late one night I learned that my mother, dearest in all the world to me, and from whom I had scarcely been separated in over thirty years except for the period of military service, had been in an accident a few hours before and had passed on within a few minutes.

Since childhood I had sought after a religion that would give me entire satisfaction because the dogma of the religion to which I subscribed did not still my longing. But many years passed during which I was prepared by deep sorrow to accept the right understanding of God as presented by Christian Science; that understanding which reconciles religion and Science.

For the many healings that have come to my family and to me through the study and application of the truth as taught in Christian Science I wish to express gratitude. We have had many proofs that God never fails us when we trustingly turn to Him for help.

The testimonies in the Journal and the Sentinel mean so much to me that I hope my contribution may help someone as I have been helped. It is not always testimonies of the most striking healings that help, I find, but sometimes an indication of patience, trust, and endurance in spite of small results.

" Neither organic inaction nor overaction is beyond God's control; and man will be found normal and natural to changed mortal thought, and therefore more harmonious in his manifestations than he was in the prior states which human belief created and sanctioned" ( Science and Health, p. 125 ).