Testimonies of Healing
Christian Science was first presented to me by a neighbor at a time when I was experiencing extreme grief and ill health. Some authorized Christian Science literature was given me to read, and being greatly impressed I later accepted an invitation to attend a Wednesday evening testimony meeting.
I wish to express my gratitude to God and also to Mrs. Eddy for the rich discovery of Christian Science.
It is with a heart full of gratitude, which words cannot express, that I submit my testimony to the healing power of Christian Science and the benefits derived therefrom. As a child I was subject to bilious attacks accompanied by chills and fever; later in life I suffered with sick headaches and neuralgia.
I should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science, and for the lessons we learn through this divine truth. One year while skating on an ice rink, I fell, and immediately exclaimed that I had broken my leg.
The following is an expression of gratitude for blessings received through Christian Science. In September, 1930, about ten days before school started, our eldest daughter was taken sick with what I thought to be neuritis and sinus trouble.
It has been my desire for a long time to express my gratitude for Christian Science by sending a testimony to one of our periodicals. To tell of all the healings I have had, both spiritual and physical, would require too much space, so I will mention just a few.
I have had many healings in Christian Science, physical, financial, and mental, and have been led, step by step, through a problem which threatened to wreck my life, and for which there was no earthly solution; but thanks to Christian Science and to a most loving practitioner, who helped me to see the unreality of it, the experience turned out to be one of the greatest blessings that have ever come to me. The healing that stands out particularly at this time is one that took place about three years ago.
It is with gratitude and joy that I send in my testimony for the Journal. The Christian Science literature holds an important place in our home.
About three years ago, through Christian Science, I learned the truth about God and man as His perfect idea. Since then I have had many healings, some of physical ailments, such as nervousness, colds, constipation, hay fever; and also healings of unlovely traits of disposition, such as resentment, self-love, hatred, and self-will.
When Elisha healed Naaman of his leprosy, it is recorded in the Bible that "his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child. " This passage of Scripture stands out to me through a proof of God's power to heal today as in the earlier centuries.