Testimonies of Healing

Among the many blessings derived from the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy for which I wish to express my gratitude is my speedy recovery from a compound fracture of the hip. At the time I was a long distance from home, and having no one with me who knew of Christian Science I was taken to a hospital.

Five and a half years ago Christian Science first came into my life. I was in the depths of despair and without faith in God or man.

" Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy. " I want to be accounted with the one leper who returned to give thanks to God for his healing, for I owe a lifelong debt of gratitude to Christian Science, and to our Leader, Mrs.

When I was a child, my" father taught me the Bible from a strictly orthodox standpoint, stressing, however, the power and availability of prayer. This I accepted as the keynote of Christianity, and early formed the habit of taking everything to God in prayer.

From my early childhood, until years later when our son manifested a severe case of eczema, I had often wondered why the healings of sickness and sin as practiced by the prophets of old and later by Jesus and his devoted followers could not be performed in our day also. I little realized that this blessing was soon to come into our lives through the study and application of Christian Science.

In John we find these words of Jesus: "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. " As one of his followers, it is my duty and blessed privilege to bear loving witness to the truth as set forth by him centuries ago and as discovered and revealed to the world by Mary Baker Eddy in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other writings.

Christian Science has been such a great blessing in my life that only by consecrating the best in me to helping others see the truth can I ever repay in a measure all I have gained through its tender ministrations. Like countless others I too appreciate this privilege of joining the Psalmist in saying, "I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

Mrs. Eddy says on page 68 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Christian Science presents unfoldment, not accretion; it manifests no material growth from molecule to mind, but an impartation of the divine Mind to man and the universe.

I have had many healings in Christian Science, but the one that stands out most clearly is my first, because it proved to me beyond a shadow of doubt that Christian Science is indeed the truth, which Christ Jesus said "shall make you free. " In May, 1918, at the age of fifteen, I was taken to a hospital after being in bed four months under the care of doctors.

Christian Science came to me nineteen years ago. I attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting at The Mother Church with a friend, and shall never forget the peace and calmness that I experienced as I entered the auditorium.